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

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