Actionable Observability Resources
Checklists, best practices, and maturity models to help you build and improve your observability practice.
Implementation
APM Implementation Checklist
Step-by-step APM implementation checklist covering SDK installation, instrumentation, alerting, and production rollout with OpenTelemetry best practices.
OpenTelemetry Migration Guide
Practical guide for migrating from vendor-specific APM SDKs to OpenTelemetry, with language-specific code examples and a phased rollout strategy.
Operations
Production Monitoring Checklist
Complete production monitoring checklist covering infrastructure, application health, distributed tracing, log aggregation, and incident response readiness.
SRE On-Call Quick Reference
Essential SRE on-call reference covering triage frameworks, investigation patterns, escalation procedures, communication templates, and post-incident checklists.
Strategy
Distributed Tracing Best Practices
Proven distributed tracing best practices: meaningful span naming, context propagation, strategic attributes, sampling strategies, and connecting traces to business impact.
Observability Maturity Model
Five-level observability maturity model from reactive monitoring to autonomous operations, with concrete capabilities and metrics for each stage.
Put these resources into practice
TraceKit provides the tools you need to implement these best practices: distributed tracing, live breakpoints, and production debugging.