sprint2–4 weeks~2h mentor time
Observability for a Microservice Fleet
Instrument three services end to end: traces, RED metrics, structured logs, and alerts that fire once.
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The brief
Instrument three services end to end: traces, RED metrics, structured logs, and alerts that fire once. The brief is deliberately incomplete — you make and justify the tradeoffs.
Deliberately ambiguous — you make and justify the tradeoffs. Your work is checked against a held-out evaluation you can't see in advance.
Milestones & mentor checkpoints
1Trace propagationweek 1mentor review
2Metrics & dashboardsweek 2mentor review
3Alerting & SLOsweek 3mentor review
How you're graded
Correctness
50% weight
Code quality
30% weight
Communication
20% weight