Quick Answer
Monitor production microservices with: RED method (Rate, Errors, Duration) per service. USE method (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) for infrastructure. Distributed tracing for request-level debugging. Dashboards in Grafana per service and per system. Alert on SLO violations, not just infrastructure metrics. Have runbooks for each alert so on-call engineers know what to do.
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