Logs & Observability

Purpose and scope

Standardize logging and tracing so debugging is fast and consistent.

Outcomes

• JSON logs with correlation IDs.
• Golden dashboards per template.
• Trace sampling tailored to risk.

Signals of trouble

• Grepping ad-hoc logs without correlation.
• Missing readiness/liveness probes.
• No ownership on broken dashboards.

Remediation steps

1. Enforce log schema in CI; inject correlation IDs.
2. Ship defaults for metrics/traces with templates.
3. Add SLOs and alerting tied to user journeys.

Checklists and assets

• playbooks/12factor-modernized/checklist.md observability tasks.

References

• Observability standards; tracing libraries.