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Observability in microservices: instrument services with OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs - single SDK). Export to your backend (Jaeger for traces, Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs). Add structured logging with correlation IDs. Create dashboards in Grafana. Set SLOs and burn-rate alerts. Observability is a property you build in, not add later.
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Collect logs, metrics, and distributed traces. Use tracing tools like Jaeger or Zipkin to debug cross-service flows. Integrate alerting systems for failures and performance issues.
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