Observability Maturity

Can you debug production issues in 15 minutes at 2AM?

⚠ Current State: Production Blind

Without proper observability, a production incident could take hours to diagnose. This is not acceptable.

Total Items

Implemented

Maturity Level

Level 0: None

The 15-Minute Test

Scenario: "Loan approvals dropped 50% in the last hour. What happened?"

Time Budget: 15 minutes to identify root cause

Current Capability: ❌ Unknown (> 30 minutes at best)

Target Capability: ✅ < 5 minutes with full observability

Error Tracking

Current debug time: Unknown

Error aggregation service (Sentry/DataDog)

Pending

Error deduplication & grouping

Pending

Error context (user, session, request ID)

Pending

Error alerting (critical threshold)

Pending

Error rate monitoring & trending

Pending

Building Observability (Phased)

Week 1: Set up error tracking (Sentry) + basic metrics

Week 2: Centralized logging + log search

Week 3: Distributed tracing setup

Week 4: Dashboards + alerting + on-call

Goal: Reduce production incident diagnosis from hours to minutes.