service-mesh-observability
This skill provides comprehensive guidance for implementing observability across service mesh deployments like Istio and Linkerd, covering distributed tracing, metrics collection, and dashboard visualization. Use it when establishing mesh monitoring infrastructure, investigating service latency and connectivity issues, or designing service level objectives for inter-service communication.
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# Service Mesh Observability Complete guide to observability patterns for Istio, Linkerd, and service mesh deployments. ## When to Use This Skill - Setting up distributed tracing across services - Implementing service mesh metrics and dashboards - Debugging latency and error issues - Defining SLOs for service communication - Visualizing service dependencies - Troubleshooting mesh connectivity ## Core Concepts ### 1. Three Pillars of Observability ``` ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Observability │ ├─────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────┤ │ Metrics │ Traces │ Logs │ │ │ │ │ │ • Request rate │ • Span context │ • Access logs │ │ • Error rate │ • Latency │ • Error details │ │ • Latency P50 │ • Dependencies │ • Debug info │ │ • Saturation │ • Bottlenecks │ • Audit trail │ └─────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────┘ ``` ### 2. Golden Signals for Mesh | Signal | Description | Alert Threshold | | -------------- | ------------------------- | ----------------- | | **Latency** | Request duration P50, P99 | P99 > 500ms | | **Traffic** | Requests per second | Anomaly detection | | **Errors** | 5xx error rate | > 1% | | **Saturation** | Resource utilization | > 80% | ## Templates and detailed worked examples Full template library and detailed worked examples live in `references/details.md`. Read that file when you need the concrete templates. ## Best Practices ### Do's - **Sample appropriately** - 100% in dev, 1-10% in prod - **Use trace context** - Propagate headers consistently - **Set up alerts** - For golden signals - **Correlate metrics/traces** - Use exemplars - **Retain strategically** - Hot/cold storage tiers ### Don'ts - **Don't over-sample** - Storage costs add up - **Don't ignore cardinality** - Limit label values - **Don't skip dashboards** - Visualize dependencies - **Don't forget costs** - Monitor observability costs
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