Expert · 3–4 weeks
Unified Observability Integration
Instrument 3+ Java microservices with OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and structured logs. Unified dashboards, SLO definitions, and alert rules with runbooks.
Why this project
You cannot operate what you cannot observe. Staff engineers define observability standards.
Tech stack
Java 17OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaLoki or ELKSpring Boot Actuator
Skills demonstrated
- Distributed tracing
- SLO/SLI design
- Alerting
- Runbook culture
Interview talking points
- Trace context propagation across Kafka
- SLO vs SLA
- Alert fatigue reduction
- Debugging a production incident with your stack
Problem statement
Instrument 3+ Java microservices with OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and structured logs. Unified dashboards, SLO definitions, and alert rules with runbooks.