Modern Day Challenges Require Modern Tooling
When discussing observability, we often think of monitoring, alerting, and log analysis. While these are essential elements, effective observability requires more. It should not be treated as an “Ops-only” activity implemented at the end of a project, but rather as a foundational element embedded in initial system design and aligned with business objectives.
As microservices and event-driven, distributed systems become the norm, robust tracing capabilities are essential for effective troubleshooting and software development. Rather than spending hours investigating issues, root causes should be identified quickly and with minimal manual effort. These root causes may stem from application logic, business processes, or operational and technical factors. IT systems become increasingly important to the core business. Observability platforms must also capture business-level metrics. This allows teams to understand the business impact of outages (or improvements) and enables us to scale environments based on upcoming events or expected demands of the platform.
With applications and infrastructure becoming more tightly integrated, the traditional separation between “Dev” and “Ops” continues to fade. This shift requires tools that support collaboration across teams and prevent friction. Intelligent, unified observability platforms help streamline communication and minimize unnecessary back-and-forth. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) plays a key role here, providing a “single pane of glass” for DevOps teams.
My Experience
As a DevOps engineer, I have led many projects focused on application and infrastructure performance, for instance an and-to-end performance analysis of a webappliation and its backend systems , or load-tests on public facing webapplications or complex backend applications. I have setup operational monitoring and alerting, created dashboards, and implemented synthetic testing. I have hands-on experience with a variety of observability platforms, including New Relic, Dynatrace, Elastic Stack, Azure Monitor / Application Insights, and Splunk Observability Cloud, using them for troubleshooting, performance analysis, and reporting.
What I Can Do for You
- Perform comprehensive application performance analysis across infrastructure, application, and data layers
- Perform load-tests on web applications and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines
- Implement and optimize APM tools to provide deep visibility into application and infrastructure performance
- Configure data ingestion from multiple sources and build tailored dashboards and alerts
- Guide your organization in selecting the best observability tools for your needs
Let’s plan an intake and discuss your challenges. For more information, please refer to my resume.