Observability Metrics¶

Metadata¶

Property	Value
Type	data_asset
Domain	technology-and-engineering
Status	active
Version	1.0.0
Owner	Platform Engineering
Steward	Platform Engineering

Definition¶

Managed collection of OpenTelemetry generated metric observations produced by instrumented organizational services and infrastructure and used for operational monitoring, dashboarding, and observability analysis.

Description¶

The observability metrics asset contains time series data exported through OpenTelemetry from instrumented services and infrastructure. The asset supports operational dashboards, service health monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, HTTP and database performance analysis, and observability KPIs.

Source System¶

OpenTelemetry

Grain¶

One metric observation represented as a time series data point identified by its metric name, resource attributes, and metric dimensions.

Schema¶

OpenTelemetry metric data model exported through OTLP and stored in the observability metrics backend.

Classification¶

internal

Quality Expectations¶

- Metric names must conform to the canonical observability metric catalogue.
- Required resource attributes must be present on exported observations.
- Metric values must use the units defined by their canonical metric definitions.
- Metric dimensions must remain consistent with the field matrix.
- Metric observations should preserve service and environment identity.
- Export failures should be detectable through observability of the telemetry pipeline.

Refresh Frequency¶

near real-time

Retention¶

Defined by the observability metrics backend retention policy.

Lineage¶

- OpenTelemetry SDK
- OpenTelemetry Collector
- Prometheus
- Observability Dashboards

technology.http.request.rate
technology.http.request.error_rate
technology.http.request.latency
technology.http.request.active
technology.process.cpu.utilization
technology.process.memory.usage
technology.process.uptime
technology.database.operation.duration
technology.http.client.request.duration
technology.redis.operation.duration
technology.service.availability
technology.service.error_budget
technology.service.latency_sla_compliance
technology.service.performance_health

Source¶

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