Observability Consulting: Grafana, Prometheus & OpenTelemetry
Dashboards are not observability. I design telemetry pipelines that answer real questions: metrics, logs and traces tied to SLOs that people act on.
What I help with
- Open-source stacks built on Grafana, Prometheus, the OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki and Tempo
- Migration from commercial vendors such as Datadog to open-source tooling
- Distributed tracing and trace sampling strategy
- Kubernetes and NGINX ingress monitoring
- SLO and service-health tracking
- Instrumentation for large self-hosted platforms
Relevant experience
- Built, deployed and operated a 30M+ active-series observability stack on open source at Twilio Segment
- Migrated observability from Datadog to open-source tooling
- Manage observability instrumentation for large-scale self-hosted GitHub and Artifactory
- Improved the observability landscape for better SLO tracking of services
- Write publicly about OpenTelemetry, Jaeger tracing and Kubernetes monitoring
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