Observability Jumpstart

Production-grade monitoring, logging, and tracing in 3 weeks

Fixed Price

$30,000

Timeline

3 weeks

Ideal For

Teams with limited visibility into production systems

What's Included

Metrics, logs, and traces in one platform
Custom dashboards for your apps
Alerting to Slack/PagerDuty
SLO tracking and error budgets
On-call runbooks
Team training

What You Get

Week 1: Metrics & Dashboards

  • Prometheus or Datadog: Metrics collection
  • Grafana dashboards: System and application metrics
  • Golden signals: Latency, traffic, errors, saturation
  • Infrastructure monitoring: CPU, memory, disk, network
  • Custom metrics: Application-specific KPIs
  • Historical data: 30-day retention (configurable)

Week 2: Logging & Tracing

  • Centralized logging: ELK Stack, Loki, or CloudWatch
  • Log aggregation: From all services and infrastructure
  • Structured logging: JSON format with context
  • Distributed tracing: Jaeger or AWS X-Ray
  • Trace-based debugging: Find slow requests and errors
  • Log-based alerts: Critical error notifications

Week 3: Alerting & SLOs

  • Alerting rules: Critical issues to Slack/PagerDuty
  • SLO definition: Service Level Objectives for key services
  • Error budgets: Track reliability over time
  • On-call runbooks: Step-by-step troubleshooting guides
  • Incident templates: Post-mortem and RCA formats
  • Team training: Using observability tools

Deliverables

  • Metrics platform (Prometheus/Datadog + Grafana)
  • Logging platform (ELK/Loki/CloudWatch)
  • Distributed tracing (Jaeger/X-Ray)
  • Custom dashboards (5-10 dashboards)
  • Alerting rules and integrations
  • SLO definitions and error budgets
  • On-call runbooks (5-10 scenarios)
  • Team training (1 day)
  • 30 days post-launch support

Technology Stack

We support multiple platforms:

Open Source:

  • Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Jaeger
  • ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • OpenTelemetry for instrumentation

SaaS:

  • Datadog
  • New Relic
  • Honeycomb
  • Grafana Cloud

Cloud-Native:

  • AWS CloudWatch + X-Ray
  • Azure Monitor + Application Insights
  • Google Cloud Operations (Stackdriver)

Why Observability Matters

Without proper observability, you’re flying blind:

  • ❌ Can’t diagnose production issues quickly
  • ❌ No visibility into user experience
  • ❌ Unclear if deployments cause problems
  • ❌ Reactive instead of proactive
  • ❌ Long MTTR (Mean Time To Resolve)

With observability:

  • ✓ Diagnose issues in minutes, not hours
  • ✓ Understand user experience in real-time
  • ✓ Confidently deploy with instant feedback
  • ✓ Proactive alerts before users complain
  • ✓ 10x faster incident resolution

Ideal For

  • Teams with limited monitoring beyond basic health checks
  • Companies scaling and needing better visibility
  • Organizations with frequent production incidents
  • DevOps teams building on-call rotation
  • Companies needing compliance audit trails

Prerequisites

  • Applications deployed in cloud or on-prem
  • Access to application logs and metrics
  • Ability to instrument code (we can help)
  • Slack or PagerDuty for alerting (optional)

Timeline

3 weeks from kick-off to production

Pricing

$30,000 fixed price

Includes:

  • Platform setup and configuration
  • Custom dashboards and alerts
  • Instrumentation assistance
  • Documentation and runbooks
  • Team training
  • 30 days support

Note: Does not include SaaS subscription costs (Datadog, etc.) if applicable

What Happens After?

  • Your team uses observability tools daily
  • Incidents get resolved 10x faster
  • You track SLOs and error budgets
  • We provide 30 days of support
  • Optional: Observability office hours

Success Metrics

  • ✓ 100% of services instrumented
  • ✓ Mean Time To Detection (MTTD) < 5 minutes
  • ✓ Mean Time To Resolve (MTTR) < 30 minutes
  • ✓ SLOs defined for all critical services
  • ✓ Zero alert fatigue (actionable alerts only)

Get Started

Stop guessing what’s happening in production. Get full visibility.

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