Observability & Operations — System Design Roadmap
Understanding what a distributed system is doing and keeping it running
Steps in Observability & Operations
- Monitoring & Metrics — advanced · Collecting system and business metrics to understand health and usage
- Centralized Logging — advanced · Aggregating logs from many services into a searchable, correlated view
- Alerting — advanced · Turning metrics and logs into actionable, low-noise alerts
- Distributed Tracing — advanced · Tracing a single request as it flows across many services
- Capacity Planning — advanced · Forecasting resource needs ahead of growth or seasonal spikes
- Backup & Disaster Recovery — advanced · RTO/RPO targets, backup strategies and recovering from regional outages
Part of
- System Design roadmap — the full learning path