Competencies: Platforms & Products > Observability Products
Observability Products
Body of Knowledge
| Topic | Description | Relevance | Career Tracks |
|---|---|---|---|
Prometheus |
Metrics collection, PromQL, alerting, service discovery, federation |
Critical |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer |
Grafana |
Visualization, dashboards, alerting, data sources, provisioning |
Critical |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer |
ELK Stack |
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, log aggregation, analysis, visualization |
High |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer |
Datadog |
APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, synthetics, RUM, integrations |
High |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer |
New Relic |
APM, infrastructure, logs, distributed tracing, error tracking |
Medium |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Backend Developer |
Jaeger/Zipkin |
Distributed tracing, span collection, trace analysis, visualization |
High |
SRE, Backend Developer, DevOps Engineer |
PagerDuty |
Incident management, on-call scheduling, alerting, escalation policies |
High |
SRE, DevOps Engineer |
Loki |
Log aggregation, LogQL, Grafana integration, lightweight logging |
High |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer |
OpenTelemetry |
Observability framework, traces, metrics, logs, vendor-neutral instrumentation |
High |
SRE, Backend Developer, DevOps Engineer |
Personal Status
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