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Author: Platform TeamCreated: Nov 16, 2025Updated: Nov 16, 2025

MEMO-078: Week 18 - Observability Stack Setup

Date: 2025-11-16 Updated: 2025-11-16 Author: Platform Team Related: MEMO-074, MEMO-075, MEMO-077, RFC-060

Executive Summary

Goal: Deploy production-ready observability stack for 100B vertex graph system

Scope: Metrics (Prometheus), visualization (Grafana), distributed tracing (Jaeger), logging (Loki), alerting (Alertmanager)

Findings:

Metrics collection: 500K metrics/sec from 2000 instances (Prometheus HA cluster)
Trace sampling: 1% sampling = 11M spans/sec (Jaeger with Cassandra backend)
Log aggregation: 10 GB/day structured logs (Loki with S3 storage)
Dashboard latency: <500ms query time for 30-day retention
Alert delivery: <30 seconds from threshold breach to PagerDuty
Storage costs: $5,847/month (reduced from $35,502 via self-hosted Prometheus)

Validation: Observability covers all components validated in MEMO-074 benchmarks

Recommendation: Deploy self-hosted Prometheus + Grafana + Jaeger stack with 30-day retention and tiered alerting

Methodology

Observability Requirements

1. Metrics (Time-Series Data):

Collect system metrics (CPU, memory, network, disk) from 2000 instances
Collect application metrics (requests/sec, latency, errors) from proxy nodes
Collect Redis metrics (ops/sec, memory usage, evictions, replication lag)
Collect PostgreSQL metrics (queries/sec, connection pool, replication lag)
Retention: 30 days high-resolution, 1 year downsampled

2. Distributed Tracing:

Trace query execution from client → proxy → Redis/S3 → response
Capture latency breakdown by operation (metadata lookup, hot tier access, cold tier load)
Sample 1% of requests (11M spans/sec from 1.1B ops/sec)
Retention: 7 days full traces, 30 days sampled

3. Logging:

Structured JSON logs from proxy nodes, Redis, PostgreSQL
Centralized aggregation and search
Retention: 7 days full logs, 30 days errors only
Privacy: No PII in logs (use trace IDs for correlation)

4. Alerting:

Multi-tier: Critical (PagerDuty), Warning (Slack), Info (email)
Auto-remediation: Scale-out on high load, restart unhealthy instances
Runbook links: Every alert includes link to remediation guide
On-call rotation: 24/7 coverage with escalation policies

5. Dashboards:

Infrastructure overview (compute, network, storage utilization)
Redis performance (ops/sec, latency percentiles, memory, evictions)
Proxy performance (requests/sec, latency, errors, cache hit rate)
Network topology (cross-AZ traffic, bandwidth utilization)
Cost tracking (instance hours, data transfer, storage)

Metrics Collection (Prometheus)

Prometheus Architecture

Deployment Strategy: High-availability cluster with federation

Prometheus Architecture (3-tier):

Tier 1: Local Prometheus (per AZ)
├── AZ us-west-2a: Prometheus instance (scrapes 667 instances)
├── AZ us-west-2b: Prometheus instance (scrapes 667 instances)
└── AZ us-west-2c: Prometheus instance (scrapes 666 instances)
  │
  │ Federation (aggregate metrics)
  ↓
Tier 2: Global Prometheus (HA pair)
├── Primary: Aggregates from 3 AZ instances
└── Secondary: Hot standby for failover
  │
  │ Long-term storage
  ↓
Tier 3: Thanos (object storage for 1-year retention)
└── S3 bucket: prism-metrics (compressed time-series)

Benefits:

✅ Decentralized scraping (local to AZ, low latency)
✅ High availability (3 local + 2 global instances)
✅ Horizontal scaling (add more local instances per AZ)
✅ Cost-effective long-term storage (S3 via Thanos)

Prometheus Configuration

Local Prometheus (per AZ):

# prometheus-local-us-west-2a.yml
global:
  scrape_interval: 15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s
  external_labels:
    cluster: prism
    region: us-west-2
    az: us-west-2a

scrape_configs:
  # Redis exporters (334 instances in this AZ)
  - job_name: 'redis'
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - 10.0.10.10:9121  # redis-exporter on each Redis instance
        - 10.0.10.11:9121
        # ... (334 targets total)
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__address__]
        target_label: instance
      - source_labels: [__address__]
        regex: '10\.0\.10\.(.*):9121'
        replacement: 'redis-${1}'
        target_label: redis_instance

  # Proxy node exporters (334 instances in this AZ)
  - job_name: 'proxy'
    kubernetes_sd_configs:
      - role: pod
        namespaces:
          names: [prism]
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app]
        action: keep
        regex: prism-proxy
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_ip]
        target_label: instance
      - source_labels: [__address__]
        target_label: __address__
        replacement: '${1}:9090'  # Metrics port

  # Node exporters (system metrics from all instances)
  - job_name: 'node'
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - 10.0.10.10:9100
        - 10.0.10.11:9100
        # ... (668 targets: 334 Redis + 334 Proxy)

  # PostgreSQL exporter (1 primary + 2 replicas in this region)
  - job_name: 'postgres'
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - postgres-primary.prism.svc.cluster.local:9187
        - postgres-replica-1.prism.svc.cluster.local:9187

  # Kubernetes metrics (EKS cluster)
  - job_name: 'kubernetes-apiservers'
    kubernetes_sd_configs:
      - role: endpoints
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace, __meta_kubernetes_service_name, __meta_kubernetes_endpoint_port_name]
        action: keep
        regex: default;kubernetes;https

  # cAdvisor (container metrics)
  - job_name: 'cadvisor'
    kubernetes_sd_configs:
      - role: node
    relabel_configs:
      - action: labelmap
        regex: __meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+)
      - target_label: __address__
        replacement: kubernetes.default.svc:443
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name]
        regex: (.+)
        target_label: __metrics_path__
        replacement: /api/v1/nodes/${1}/proxy/metrics/cadvisor

# Storage configuration
storage:
  tsdb:
    path: /prometheus/data
    retention.time: 30d
    retention.size: 500GB

# Remote write to global Prometheus (federation)
remote_write:
  - url: http://prometheus-global-primary.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090/api/v1/write
    queue_config:
      capacity: 100000
      max_shards: 10
      min_shards: 1
      max_samples_per_send: 10000
      batch_send_deadline: 5s

Global Prometheus (HA pair):

# prometheus-global.yml
global:
  scrape_interval: 60s  # Lower frequency for aggregated metrics
  evaluation_interval: 60s
  external_labels:
    cluster: prism
    region: us-west-2
    prometheus: global

# Scrape local Prometheus instances (federation)
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'federate-local'
    honor_labels: true
    metrics_path: /federate
    params:
      'match[]':
        - '{job=~"redis|proxy|postgres|node"}'  # Federate all jobs
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - prometheus-local-us-west-2a.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090
        - prometheus-local-us-west-2b.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090
        - prometheus-local-us-west-2c.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090

# Alerting rules
rule_files:
  - /etc/prometheus/rules/redis.yml
  - /etc/prometheus/rules/proxy.yml
  - /etc/prometheus/rules/infrastructure.yml
  - /etc/prometheus/rules/network.yml

# Alertmanager configuration
alerting:
  alertmanagers:
    - static_configs:
      - targets:
        - alertmanager.prism.svc.cluster.local:9093

# Remote write to Thanos (long-term storage)
remote_write:
  - url: http://thanos-receive.prism.svc.cluster.local:19291/api/v1/receive

Prometheus Deployment (Kubernetes)

StatefulSet (for persistent storage):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  name: prometheus-local-us-west-2a
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  serviceName: prometheus-local-us-west-2a
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: prometheus
      tier: local
      az: us-west-2a

  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: prometheus
        tier: local
        az: us-west-2a
    spec:
      affinity:
        nodeAffinity:
          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
            nodeSelectorTerms:
              - matchExpressions:
                - key: topology.kubernetes.io/zone
                  operator: In
                  values:
                    - us-west-2a

      containers:
        - name: prometheus
          image: prom/prometheus:v2.48.0
          args:
            - '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
            - '--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus'
            - '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=30d'
            - '--storage.tsdb.retention.size=500GB'
            - '--web.enable-lifecycle'
            - '--web.enable-admin-api'

          ports:
            - name: web
              containerPort: 9090

          volumeMounts:
            - name: config
              mountPath: /etc/prometheus
            - name: storage
              mountPath: /prometheus

          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "4"
              memory: "16Gi"
            limits:
              cpu: "8"
              memory: "32Gi"

          livenessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /-/healthy
              port: 9090
            initialDelaySeconds: 30
            periodSeconds: 10

          readinessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /-/ready
              port: 9090
            initialDelaySeconds: 10
            periodSeconds: 5

      volumes:
        - name: config
          configMap:
            name: prometheus-config-us-west-2a

  volumeClaimTemplates:
    - metadata:
        name: storage
      spec:
        accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
        storageClassName: gp3
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 500Gi

Metrics Exporters

Redis Exporter (deployed as sidecar or separate DaemonSet):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: redis-exporter
  namespace: prism
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: redis-exporter
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: redis-exporter
    spec:
      hostNetwork: true  # Access Redis on host
      containers:
        - name: redis-exporter
          image: oliver006/redis_exporter:v1.55.0
          env:
            - name: REDIS_ADDR
              value: "localhost:6379"
            - name: REDIS_EXPORTER_INCL_SYSTEM_METRICS
              value: "true"
          ports:
            - name: metrics
              containerPort: 9121
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "128Mi"
            limits:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "512Mi"

Node Exporter (system metrics):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: node-exporter
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: node-exporter
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: node-exporter
    spec:
      hostNetwork: true
      hostPID: true
      containers:
        - name: node-exporter
          image: prom/node-exporter:v1.7.0
          args:
            - '--path.procfs=/host/proc'
            - '--path.sysfs=/host/sys'
            - '--path.rootfs=/host/root'
            - '--collector.filesystem.mount-points-exclude=^/(sys|proc|dev|host|etc)($$|/)'
          ports:
            - name: metrics
              containerPort: 9100
          volumeMounts:
            - name: proc
              mountPath: /host/proc
              readOnly: true
            - name: sys
              mountPath: /host/sys
              readOnly: true
            - name: root
              mountPath: /host/root
              mountPropagation: HostToContainer
              readOnly: true
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "128Mi"
            limits:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "512Mi"
      volumes:
        - name: proc
          hostPath:
            path: /proc
        - name: sys
          hostPath:
            path: /sys
        - name: root
          hostPath:
            path: /

PostgreSQL Exporter:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: postgres-exporter
  namespace: prism
spec:
  selector:
    app: postgres-exporter
  ports:
    - port: 9187
      targetPort: 9187
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: postgres-exporter
  namespace: prism
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: postgres-exporter
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: postgres-exporter
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: postgres-exporter
          image: prometheuscommunity/postgres-exporter:v0.15.0
          env:
            - name: DATA_SOURCE_NAME
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: postgres-exporter-secret
                  key: connection-string  # postgresql://user:pass@postgres:5432/prism?sslmode=require
          ports:
            - name: metrics
              containerPort: 9187
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "128Mi"
            limits:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "512Mi"

Key Metrics Collected

Redis Metrics (from redis_exporter):

# Operations
redis_commands_processed_total         # Total commands processed
redis_commands_duration_seconds_total  # Command execution time

# Memory
redis_memory_used_bytes               # Current memory usage
redis_memory_max_bytes                # Max memory limit
redis_mem_fragmentation_ratio         # Memory fragmentation

# Replication
redis_connected_slaves                # Number of replicas
redis_replication_lag_seconds         # Replica lag

# Cluster
redis_cluster_state                   # 1=ok, 0=fail
redis_cluster_slots_assigned          # Assigned hash slots

# Performance
redis_instantaneous_ops_per_sec      # Current ops/sec
redis_keyspace_hits_total            # Cache hits
redis_keyspace_misses_total          # Cache misses
redis_evicted_keys_total             # Evicted keys (memory pressure)

Proxy Metrics (custom metrics from Rust application):

// Rust code to expose metrics
use prometheus::{Counter, Histogram, Registry};

// Request counters
let requests_total = Counter::new("prism_proxy_requests_total", "Total requests")?;
let requests_errors = Counter::new("prism_proxy_requests_errors_total", "Total errors")?;

// Latency histograms
let latency_histogram = Histogram::with_opts(
    HistogramOpts::new("prism_proxy_latency_seconds", "Request latency")
        .buckets(vec![0.001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0])
)?;

// Cache metrics
let cache_hit_rate = Gauge::new("prism_proxy_cache_hit_rate", "Cache hit rate")?;
let hot_tier_accesses = Counter::new("prism_proxy_hot_tier_accesses_total", "Hot tier accesses")?;
let cold_tier_accesses = Counter::new("prism_proxy_cold_tier_accesses_total", "Cold tier accesses")?;

// Backend latency (breakdown)
let redis_latency = Histogram::new("prism_proxy_redis_latency_seconds", "Redis latency")?;
let postgres_latency = Histogram::new("prism_proxy_postgres_latency_seconds", "PostgreSQL latency")?;
let s3_latency = Histogram::new("prism_proxy_s3_latency_seconds", "S3 latency")?;

// Register all metrics
let registry = Registry::new();
registry.register(Box::new(requests_total.clone()))?;
registry.register(Box::new(latency_histogram.clone()))?;
// ... register all

// Expose /metrics endpoint
let metrics_route = warp::path("metrics")
    .map(move || {
        let encoder = TextEncoder::new();
        let metric_families = registry.gather();
        let mut buffer = vec![];
        encoder.encode(&metric_families, &mut buffer).unwrap();
        String::from_utf8(buffer).unwrap()
    });

Metrics Exposed:

# Requests
prism_proxy_requests_total               # Total requests
prism_proxy_requests_errors_total        # Total errors
prism_proxy_requests_duration_seconds    # Request latency histogram

# Cache
prism_proxy_cache_hit_rate              # Hot tier hit rate (0-1)
prism_proxy_hot_tier_accesses_total     # Hot tier accesses
prism_proxy_cold_tier_accesses_total    # Cold tier accesses

# Backend latency
prism_proxy_redis_latency_seconds       # Redis query time
prism_proxy_postgres_latency_seconds    # PostgreSQL query time
prism_proxy_s3_latency_seconds          # S3 load time

# Connections
prism_proxy_active_connections          # Current active connections
prism_proxy_connection_pool_size        # Connection pool size

Node Metrics (from node_exporter):

# CPU
node_cpu_seconds_total                  # CPU time by mode (idle, system, user)
node_load1, node_load5, node_load15     # Load averages

# Memory
node_memory_MemTotal_bytes              # Total memory
node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes          # Available memory
node_memory_MemFree_bytes               # Free memory

# Network
node_network_receive_bytes_total        # Bytes received
node_network_transmit_bytes_total       # Bytes transmitted
node_network_receive_packets_total      # Packets received
node_network_transmit_packets_total     # Packets transmitted

# Disk
node_disk_read_bytes_total              # Disk read bytes
node_disk_written_bytes_total           # Disk write bytes
node_disk_io_time_seconds_total         # Disk I/O time
node_filesystem_avail_bytes             # Available disk space

PostgreSQL Metrics (from postgres_exporter):

# Connections
pg_stat_database_numbackends            # Active connections

# Replication
pg_stat_replication_replay_lag          # Replication lag (bytes)
pg_replication_lag_seconds              # Replication lag (seconds)

# Queries
pg_stat_database_xact_commit            # Committed transactions
pg_stat_database_xact_rollback          # Rolled back transactions
pg_stat_database_blks_read              # Blocks read from disk
pg_stat_database_blks_hit               # Blocks found in cache

# Locks
pg_locks_count                          # Lock count by mode

Metrics Storage Capacity

Local Prometheus (per AZ):

Metrics per instance:
- Redis: 50 metrics × 334 instances = 16,700 metrics
- Proxy: 30 metrics × 334 instances = 10,020 metrics
- Node: 100 metrics × 668 instances = 66,800 metrics
- PostgreSQL: 50 metrics × 1 instance = 50 metrics
- Kubernetes: 200 metrics (cluster-wide)
Total per AZ: ~94,000 metrics

Scrape interval: 15 seconds
Data points per day: 94,000 metrics × (86,400 seconds / 15) = 541M data points/day

Storage size (uncompressed): 541M × 16 bytes = 8.7 GB/day
Storage size (compressed 10:1): 8.7 GB / 10 = 870 MB/day
30-day retention: 870 MB × 30 = 26 GB

Actual storage (500 GB allocated): 19× headroom for growth

Global Prometheus:

Federated metrics: ~10,000 (aggregated from 3 AZ instances)
Scrape interval: 60 seconds
Data points per day: 10,000 × (86,400 / 60) = 14.4M data points/day
Storage size (compressed): 14.4M × 16 / 10 = 230 MB/day
30-day retention: 230 MB × 30 = 6.9 GB

Actual storage (500 GB allocated): 72× headroom

Assessment: ✅ Storage capacity sufficient for 30-day retention with significant headroom

Visualization (Grafana)

Grafana Deployment

Kubernetes Deployment (HA pair):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: grafana
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  replicas: 2  # HA
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: grafana
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: grafana
    spec:
      affinity:
        podAntiAffinity:
          preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
            - weight: 100
              podAffinityTerm:
                labelSelector:
                  matchExpressions:
                    - key: app
                      operator: In
                      values:
                        - grafana
                topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname

      containers:
        - name: grafana
          image: grafana/grafana:10.2.2
          env:
            - name: GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: grafana-secret
                  key: admin-password
            - name: GF_DATABASE_TYPE
              value: postgres
            - name: GF_DATABASE_HOST
              value: postgres.prism.svc.cluster.local:5432
            - name: GF_DATABASE_NAME
              value: grafana
            - name: GF_DATABASE_USER
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: grafana-secret
                  key: db-user
            - name: GF_DATABASE_PASSWORD
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: grafana-secret
                  key: db-password
            - name: GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED
              value: "false"
            - name: GF_AUTH_DISABLE_LOGIN_FORM
              value: "false"

          ports:
            - name: web
              containerPort: 3000

          volumeMounts:
            - name: grafana-storage
              mountPath: /var/lib/grafana
            - name: grafana-dashboards
              mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
            - name: grafana-datasources
              mountPath: /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources

          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "1Gi"
            limits:
              cpu: "2"
              memory: "4Gi"

          livenessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /api/health
              port: 3000
            initialDelaySeconds: 30
            periodSeconds: 10

          readinessProbe:
            httpGet:
              path: /api/health
              port: 3000
            initialDelaySeconds: 10
            periodSeconds: 5

      volumes:
        - name: grafana-storage
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: grafana-pvc
        - name: grafana-dashboards
          configMap:
            name: grafana-dashboards
        - name: grafana-datasources
          configMap:
            name: grafana-datasources

Service (exposed via ALB):

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: grafana
  namespace: prism-observability
  annotations:
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: "nlb"
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-internal: "true"
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    app: grafana
  ports:
    - port: 80
      targetPort: 3000
      protocol: TCP

Datasource Configuration

Prometheus Datasource:

# grafana-datasources.yaml
apiVersion: 1

datasources:
  - name: Prometheus-Global
    type: prometheus
    access: proxy
    url: http://prometheus-global-primary.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090
    isDefault: true
    jsonData:
      timeInterval: "15s"
      queryTimeout: "60s"
      httpMethod: POST

  - name: Prometheus-US-West-2a
    type: prometheus
    access: proxy
    url: http://prometheus-local-us-west-2a.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090
    jsonData:
      timeInterval: "15s"

  - name: Prometheus-US-West-2b
    type: prometheus
    access: proxy
    url: http://prometheus-local-us-west-2b.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090
    jsonData:
      timeInterval: "15s"

  - name: Prometheus-US-West-2c
    type: prometheus
    access: proxy
    url: http://prometheus-local-us-west-2c.prism.svc.cluster.local:9090
    jsonData:
      timeInterval: "15s"

  - name: Jaeger
    type: jaeger
    access: proxy
    url: http://jaeger-query.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local:16686
    jsonData:
      tracesToLogs:
        datasourceUid: loki
        tags: ['trace_id']

  - name: Loki
    type: loki
    access: proxy
    url: http://loki-gateway.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local:3100
    jsonData:
      maxLines: 1000

Grafana Dashboards

Dashboard 1: Infrastructure Overview

{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "Prism Infrastructure Overview",
    "rows": [
      {
        "title": "Compute Resources",
        "panels": [
          {
            "title": "CPU Utilization (%)",
            "targets": [
              {
                "expr": "100 - (avg(irate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode=\"idle\"}[5m])) * 100)",
                "legendFormat": "Average CPU"
              }
            ],
            "type": "graph"
          },
          {
            "title": "Memory Utilization (%)",
            "targets": [
              {
                "expr": "(1 - (node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / node_memory_MemTotal_bytes)) * 100",
                "legendFormat": "{{instance}}"
              }
            ],
            "type": "graph"
          },
          {
            "title": "Network Throughput (Gbps)",
            "targets": [
              {
                "expr": "sum(rate(node_network_transmit_bytes_total[5m])) * 8 / 1e9",
                "legendFormat": "Transmit"
              },
              {
                "expr": "sum(rate(node_network_receive_bytes_total[5m])) * 8 / 1e9",
                "legendFormat": "Receive"
              }
            ],
            "type": "graph"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Instance Health",
        "panels": [
          {
            "title": "Redis Instances (Up/Down)",
            "targets": [
              {
                "expr": "count(up{job=\"redis\"} == 1)",
                "legendFormat": "Up"
              },
              {
                "expr": "count(up{job=\"redis\"} == 0)",
                "legendFormat": "Down"
              }
            ],
            "type": "singlestat"
          },
          {
            "title": "Proxy Instances (Up/Down)",
            "targets": [
              {
                "expr": "count(up{job=\"proxy\"} == 1)",
                "legendFormat": "Up"
              },
              {
                "expr": "count(up{job=\"proxy\"} == 0)",
                "legendFormat": "Down"
              }
            ],
            "type": "singlestat"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Dashboard 2: Redis Performance

Key panels:

Operations per second (instantaneous)
Command latency (p50, p95, p99)
Memory usage (used, max, fragmentation)
Eviction rate (keys evicted/sec)
Cache hit rate (hits / (hits + misses))
Replication lag (seconds behind master)
Cluster health (slots assigned, state)

Dashboard 3: Proxy Performance

Key panels:

Requests per second
Request latency (p50, p95, p99) by operation type
Error rate (errors/sec, % of total)
Cache hit rate (hot tier hit %)
Backend latency breakdown (Redis, PostgreSQL, S3)
Active connections
Connection pool utilization

Dashboard 4: Network Topology

Key panels:

Cross-AZ traffic (% of total traffic)
Bandwidth utilization by AZ
Packet loss rate
Cross-AZ latency (average, p95, p99)
Data transfer costs (estimated monthly)

Dashboard 5: Cost Tracking

Key panels:

Instance hours by type (r6i.4xlarge, c6i.2xlarge)
Data transfer (intra-AZ, cross-AZ, internet)
Storage utilization (EBS, S3)
Estimated monthly cost (running total)

Dashboard Query Performance

Query Example (proxy latency p99):

histogram_quantile(0.99,
  sum(rate(prism_proxy_requests_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)
)

Query Execution Time (from MEMO-074 benchmarks):

30-day retention: <500ms
7-day retention: <200ms
Real-time (last 5 minutes): <50ms

Assessment: ✅ Dashboard queries performant for operational use

Distributed Tracing (Jaeger)

Jaeger Architecture

Deployment Strategy: All-in-one for dev, production deployment with Cassandra backend

Jaeger Architecture (Production):

Client (Proxy Nodes)
  ↓ UDP 6831 (jaeger.thrift compact)
Jaeger Agent (DaemonSet on each node)
  ↓ gRPC
Jaeger Collector (replicas: 3)
  ↓ Write spans
Cassandra Cluster (3 nodes, RF=3)
  ↑ Read spans
Jaeger Query Service (replicas: 2)
  ↑ HTTP 16686
Grafana Explore

Benefits:

✅ Low-latency span submission (UDP to local agent)
✅ Buffering at collector (handles burst traffic)
✅ Scalable storage (Cassandra horizontal scaling)
✅ High availability (3 collectors, 2 query services)

Jaeger Deployment

Jaeger Agent (DaemonSet):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: jaeger-agent
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: jaeger-agent
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: jaeger-agent
    spec:
      hostNetwork: true
      containers:
        - name: jaeger-agent
          image: jaegertracing/jaeger-agent:1.51.0
          args:
            - --reporter.grpc.host-port=jaeger-collector.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local:14250
            - --reporter.grpc.retry.max=10
          ports:
            - name: compact
              containerPort: 6831
              protocol: UDP
            - name: binary
              containerPort: 6832
              protocol: UDP
            - name: admin
              containerPort: 14271
              protocol: TCP
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "128Mi"
            limits:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "512Mi"

Jaeger Collector:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: jaeger-collector
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: jaeger-collector
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: jaeger-collector
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: jaeger-collector
          image: jaegertracing/jaeger-collector:1.51.0
          args:
            - --cassandra.keyspace=jaeger_v1_dc1
            - --cassandra.servers=cassandra.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local
            - --cassandra.username=jaeger
            - --cassandra.password=$(CASSANDRA_PASSWORD)
            - --collector.zipkin.host-port=:9411
            - --collector.num-workers=50
            - --collector.queue-size=10000
          env:
            - name: CASSANDRA_PASSWORD
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: jaeger-cassandra-secret
                  key: password
          ports:
            - name: grpc
              containerPort: 14250
            - name: http
              containerPort: 14268
            - name: zipkin
              containerPort: 9411
            - name: admin
              containerPort: 14269
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "1"
              memory: "2Gi"
            limits:
              cpu: "4"
              memory: "8Gi"

Jaeger Query Service:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: jaeger-query
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: jaeger-query
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: jaeger-query
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: jaeger-query
          image: jaegertracing/jaeger-query:1.51.0
          args:
            - --cassandra.keyspace=jaeger_v1_dc1
            - --cassandra.servers=cassandra.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local
            - --cassandra.username=jaeger
            - --cassandra.password=$(CASSANDRA_PASSWORD)
          env:
            - name: CASSANDRA_PASSWORD
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: jaeger-cassandra-secret
                  key: password
          ports:
            - name: query
              containerPort: 16686
            - name: admin
              containerPort: 16687
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "1Gi"
            limits:
              cpu: "2"
              memory: "4Gi"

Cassandra Backend (for Jaeger)

StatefulSet (3 nodes, replication factor 3):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  name: cassandra
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  serviceName: cassandra
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: cassandra
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: cassandra
    spec:
      affinity:
        podAntiAffinity:
          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
            - labelSelector:
                matchExpressions:
                  - key: app
                    operator: In
                    values:
                      - cassandra
              topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname

      containers:
        - name: cassandra
          image: cassandra:4.1
          env:
            - name: CASSANDRA_CLUSTER_NAME
              value: "prism-jaeger"
            - name: CASSANDRA_DC
              value: "DC1"
            - name: CASSANDRA_RACK
              value: "Rack1"
            - name: CASSANDRA_SEEDS
              value: "cassandra-0.cassandra.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local"
          ports:
            - name: cql
              containerPort: 9042
            - name: gossip
              containerPort: 7000
          volumeMounts:
            - name: cassandra-data
              mountPath: /var/lib/cassandra
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "2"
              memory: "8Gi"
            limits:
              cpu: "4"
              memory: "16Gi"

  volumeClaimTemplates:
    - metadata:
        name: cassandra-data
      spec:
        accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
        storageClassName: gp3
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 500Gi

Cassandra Schema (initialized via CQL):

CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS jaeger_v1_dc1
WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 3};

USE jaeger_v1_dc1;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS traces (
    trace_id blob,
    span_id bigint,
    span_hash bigint,
    parent_id bigint,
    operation_name text,
    flags int,
    start_time timestamp,
    duration bigint,
    tags list<frozen<tag>>,
    logs list<frozen<log>>,
    refs list<frozen<span_ref>>,
    process frozen<process>,
    PRIMARY KEY (trace_id, span_id, span_hash)
) WITH compaction = {'class': 'TimeWindowCompactionStrategy', 'compaction_window_size': 1, 'compaction_window_unit': 'HOURS'};

-- Indexes for efficient querying
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS traces_start_time_idx ON traces (start_time);
CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS traces_operation_idx ON traces (operation_name);

Trace Sampling Strategy

Sampling Configuration:

# Sampling per MEMO-074 analysis: 1% sampling for 1.1B ops/sec = 11M spans/sec
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: jaeger-sampling-config
  namespace: prism-observability
data:
  sampling.json: |
    {
      "default_strategy": {
        "type": "probabilistic",
        "param": 0.01
      },
      "per_operation_strategies": {
        "prism-proxy": [
          {
            "operation": "GetVertex",
            "type": "probabilistic",
            "param": 0.01
          },
          {
            "operation": "GetEdges",
            "type": "probabilistic",
            "param": 0.01
          },
          {
            "operation": "TraverseGraph",
            "type": "probabilistic",
            "param": 0.1
          },
          {
            "operation": "HealthCheck",
            "type": "probabilistic",
            "param": 0.0001
          }
        ]
      }
    }

Sampling Rationale:

1% default: 11M spans/sec (manageable by Cassandra)
10% for complex queries (traversals): Higher sampling for operations we care most about
0.01% for health checks: Reduce noise from high-frequency low-value operations

Span Volume:

Expected spans per day:
- GetVertex (70% of traffic): 1.1B ops/sec × 0.7 × 0.01 = 7.7M spans/sec
- GetEdges (20%): 1.1B × 0.2 × 0.01 = 2.2M spans/sec
- TraverseGraph (10%): 1.1B × 0.1 × 0.1 = 11M spans/sec
Total: 21M spans/sec

Daily: 21M spans/sec × 86,400 = 1.8 trillion spans/day

Average span size: 1 KB
Daily storage: 1.8T × 1 KB = 1.8 TB/day

7-day retention: 1.8 TB × 7 = 12.6 TB
Cassandra compression (5:1): 12.6 TB / 5 = 2.5 TB

Allocated storage (3 nodes × 500 GB × 3 RF): 4.5 TB
Utilization: 2.5 TB / 4.5 TB = 56%

Assessment: ✅ Storage capacity sufficient for 7-day trace retention

Trace Instrumentation (Proxy)

Rust OpenTelemetry Integration:

use opentelemetry::{global, trace::{Tracer, SpanKind}, KeyValue};
use opentelemetry_jaeger::new_pipeline;
use tracing_opentelemetry::OpenTelemetryLayer;
use tracing_subscriber::{layer::SubscriberExt, Registry};

// Initialize Jaeger tracer
let tracer = new_pipeline()
    .with_service_name("prism-proxy")
    .with_agent_endpoint("localhost:6831")
    .with_trace_config(
        opentelemetry::sdk::trace::config()
            .with_sampler(opentelemetry::sdk::trace::Sampler::TraceIdRatioBased(0.01))
    )
    .install_batch(opentelemetry::runtime::Tokio)?;

// Set up tracing subscriber
let telemetry = OpenTelemetryLayer::new(tracer);
let subscriber = Registry::default().with(telemetry);
tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)?;

// Instrument function with tracing
#[tracing::instrument(skip(self))]
async fn get_vertex(&self, vertex_id: &str) -> Result<Vertex, Error> {
    let span = tracing::info_span!("get_vertex", vertex.id = %vertex_id);
    let _enter = span.enter();

    // 1. Query PostgreSQL for partition metadata
    let partition_span = tracing::info_span!("query_partition_metadata");
    let _partition_enter = partition_span.enter();
    let partition_id = self.postgres.get_partition(vertex_id).await?;
    drop(_partition_enter);

    // 2. Check hot tier (Redis)
    let redis_span = tracing::info_span!("redis_get", partition = %partition_id);
    let _redis_enter = redis_span.enter();
    if let Some(vertex) = self.redis.get(vertex_id).await? {
        return Ok(vertex);
    }
    drop(_redis_enter);

    // 3. Load from cold tier (S3)
    let s3_span = tracing::info_span!("s3_load_partition", partition = %partition_id);
    let _s3_enter = s3_span.enter();
    let partition = self.s3.load_partition(partition_id).await?;
    drop(_s3_enter);

    // 4. Promote to hot tier
    let promote_span = tracing::info_span!("promote_to_hot_tier");
    let _promote_enter = promote_span.enter();
    self.redis.set(vertex_id, &partition.get_vertex(vertex_id)).await?;
    drop(_promote_enter);

    Ok(partition.get_vertex(vertex_id))
}

Trace Example (GetVertex span):

{
  "traceID": "5a2d3f8b4c1e6a7b",
  "spanID": "1234567890abcdef",
  "operationName": "get_vertex",
  "startTime": 1700000000000000,
  "duration": 45000,
  "tags": [
    {"key": "vertex.id", "value": "user:123456"},
    {"key": "partition.id", "value": "42"},
    {"key": "cache.hit", "value": "false"},
    {"key": "tier", "value": "cold"}
  ],
  "logs": [],
  "references": [],
  "process": {
    "serviceName": "prism-proxy",
    "tags": [
      {"key": "hostname", "value": "proxy-node-123"},
      {"key": "ip", "value": "10.0.10.50"}
    ]
  },
  "children": [
    {
      "spanID": "2345678901bcdef0",
      "operationName": "query_partition_metadata",
      "duration": 2000,
      "tags": [{"key": "db.type", "value": "postgresql"}]
    },
    {
      "spanID": "3456789012cdef01",
      "operationName": "redis_get",
      "duration": 800,
      "tags": [
        {"key": "db.type", "value": "redis"},
        {"key": "cache.hit", "value": "false"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "spanID": "456789013def0123",
      "operationName": "s3_load_partition",
      "duration": 35000,
      "tags": [
        {"key": "storage.type", "value": "s3"},
        {"key": "partition.size", "value": "100MB"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "spanID": "56789014ef012345",
      "operationName": "promote_to_hot_tier",
      "duration": 1200,
      "tags": [{"key": "db.type", "value": "redis"}]
    }
  ]
}

Trace Query (in Jaeger UI):

Service: prism-proxy
Operation: get_vertex
Tags: cache.hit=false, tier=cold
Duration: >40ms
Result: Shows all cold tier accesses taking >40ms

Logging (Loki)

Loki Architecture

Deployment Strategy: Microservices mode with S3 backend

Loki Architecture:

Proxy Nodes / Redis / PostgreSQL
  ↓ HTTP (push logs)
Loki Distributor (replicas: 3)
  ↓ Write to S3
S3 Bucket: prism-logs
  ↑ Read from S3
Loki Querier (replicas: 2)
  ↑ Query logs
Grafana Explore

Loki Deployment

Loki Configuration:

auth_enabled: false

server:
  http_listen_port: 3100
  grpc_listen_port: 9096

common:
  path_prefix: /loki
  storage:
    s3:
      s3: s3://us-west-2/prism-logs
      s3forcepathstyle: true
  replication_factor: 1

schema_config:
  configs:
    - from: 2024-01-01
      store: tsdb
      object_store: s3
      schema: v12
      index:
        prefix: index_
        period: 24h

storage_config:
  tsdb_shipper:
    active_index_directory: /loki/tsdb-index
    cache_location: /loki/tsdb-cache
    shared_store: s3

  aws:
    s3: s3://us-west-2/prism-logs
    region: us-west-2

compactor:
  working_directory: /loki/compactor
  shared_store: s3
  compaction_interval: 10m

limits_config:
  retention_period: 168h  # 7 days
  ingestion_rate_mb: 10
  ingestion_burst_size_mb: 20
  max_query_length: 720h
  max_query_lookback: 720h

chunk_store_config:
  max_look_back_period: 168h

table_manager:
  retention_deletes_enabled: true
  retention_period: 168h

Distributor Deployment:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: loki-distributor
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: loki
      component: distributor
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: loki
        component: distributor
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: loki
          image: grafana/loki:2.9.3
          args:
            - -config.file=/etc/loki/config.yaml
            - -target=distributor
          ports:
            - name: http
              containerPort: 3100
            - name: grpc
              containerPort: 9096
          volumeMounts:
            - name: config
              mountPath: /etc/loki
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "1Gi"
            limits:
              cpu: "2"
              memory: "4Gi"
      volumes:
        - name: config
          configMap:
            name: loki-config

Querier Deployment (similar structure, -target=querier).

Log Collection (Promtail)

Promtail DaemonSet (collects logs from all nodes):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: promtail
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: promtail
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: promtail
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: promtail
      containers:
        - name: promtail
          image: grafana/promtail:2.9.3
          args:
            - -config.file=/etc/promtail/config.yaml
          volumeMounts:
            - name: config
              mountPath: /etc/promtail
            - name: varlog
              mountPath: /var/log
              readOnly: true
            - name: varlibdockercontainers
              mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
              readOnly: true
          env:
            - name: HOSTNAME
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: spec.nodeName
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "128Mi"
            limits:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "512Mi"
      volumes:
        - name: config
          configMap:
            name: promtail-config
        - name: varlog
          hostPath:
            path: /var/log
        - name: varlibdockercontainers
          hostPath:
            path: /var/lib/docker/containers

Promtail Configuration:

server:
  http_listen_port: 9080
  grpc_listen_port: 0

positions:
  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml

clients:
  - url: http://loki-distributor.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local:3100/loki/api/v1/push

scrape_configs:
  # Kubernetes pod logs
  - job_name: kubernetes-pods
    kubernetes_sd_configs:
      - role: pod
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_node_name]
        target_label: node
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace]
        target_label: namespace
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_name]
        target_label: pod
      - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name]
        target_label: container
    pipeline_stages:
      - docker: {}
      - json:
          expressions:
            level: level
            msg: msg
            trace_id: trace_id
            latency_ms: latency_ms
      - labels:
          level:
          trace_id:

  # System logs
  - job_name: system
    static_configs:
      - targets:
          - localhost
        labels:
          job: syslog
          __path__: /var/log/syslog

Structured Logging (Proxy)

Rust Logging Setup:

use tracing::{info, error, warn};
use tracing_subscriber::fmt::format::FmtSpan;

// Initialize structured logging (JSON format)
tracing_subscriber::fmt()
    .json()
    .with_max_level(tracing::Level::INFO)
    .with_span_events(FmtSpan::CLOSE)
    .init();

// Example log statement
#[tracing::instrument(skip(self))]
async fn handle_request(&self, req: Request) -> Result<Response, Error> {
    info!(
        request.id = %req.id,
        request.method = %req.method,
        request.path = %req.path,
        "Received request"
    );

    let start = Instant::now();
    let result = self.process_request(req).await;
    let latency_ms = start.elapsed().as_millis();

    match result {
        Ok(resp) => {
            info!(
                request.id = %req.id,
                response.status = %resp.status,
                latency_ms = %latency_ms,
                "Request completed successfully"
            );
            Ok(resp)
        }
        Err(e) => {
            error!(
                request.id = %req.id,
                error = %e,
                latency_ms = %latency_ms,
                "Request failed"
            );
            Err(e)
        }
    }
}

Log Output (JSON):

{
  "timestamp": "2025-11-16T12:00:00.123456Z",
  "level": "INFO",
  "target": "prism_proxy",
  "fields": {
    "message": "Request completed successfully",
    "request.id": "req-abc123",
    "response.status": 200,
    "latency_ms": 3,
    "trace_id": "5a2d3f8b4c1e6a7b",
    "span.name": "handle_request",
    "span.id": "1234567890abcdef"
  }
}

Log Retention and Costs

Log Volume:

Log generation:
- Proxy nodes: 1000 × 100 logs/sec = 100,000 logs/sec
- Redis: 1000 × 10 logs/sec = 10,000 logs/sec
- PostgreSQL: 4 × 50 logs/sec = 200 logs/sec
Total: ~110,000 logs/sec

Average log size: 500 bytes (JSON)
Daily volume: 110,000 × 500 bytes × 86,400 = 4.75 GB/day
Weekly volume (7 days): 4.75 GB × 7 = 33.25 GB

Compression (5:1): 33.25 GB / 5 = 6.65 GB
S3 storage cost: 6.65 GB × $0.023/GB = $0.15/month

Assessment: ✅ Negligible storage cost for logs

Alerting (Alertmanager)

Alertmanager Deployment

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: alertmanager
  namespace: prism-observability
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: alertmanager
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: alertmanager
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: alertmanager
          image: prom/alertmanager:v0.26.0
          args:
            - --config.file=/etc/alertmanager/config.yml
            - --storage.path=/alertmanager
            - --cluster.listen-address=0.0.0.0:9094
            - --cluster.peer=alertmanager-0.alertmanager.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local:9094
            - --cluster.peer=alertmanager-1.alertmanager.prism-observability.svc.cluster.local:9094
          ports:
            - name: web
              containerPort: 9093
            - name: cluster
              containerPort: 9094
          volumeMounts:
            - name: config
              mountPath: /etc/alertmanager
            - name: storage
              mountPath: /alertmanager
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "128Mi"
            limits:
              cpu: "500m"
              memory: "512Mi"
      volumes:
        - name: config
          configMap:
            name: alertmanager-config
        - name: storage
          emptyDir: {}

Alertmanager Configuration

global:
  resolve_timeout: 5m
  slack_api_url: 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
  pagerduty_url: 'https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue'

route:
  receiver: 'slack-default'
  group_by: ['alertname', 'cluster', 'service']
  group_wait: 30s
  group_interval: 5m
  repeat_interval: 4h

  routes:
    # Critical alerts → PagerDuty
    - match:
        severity: critical
      receiver: 'pagerduty-critical'
      continue: true

    # Warning alerts → Slack
    - match:
        severity: warning
      receiver: 'slack-warnings'

    # Info alerts → Email
    - match:
        severity: info
      receiver: 'email-info'

receivers:
  - name: 'slack-default'
    slack_configs:
      - channel: '#prism-alerts'
        title: '{{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'
        text: '{{ range .Alerts }}{{ .Annotations.description }}{{ end }}'
        send_resolved: true

  - name: 'slack-warnings'
    slack_configs:
      - channel: '#prism-warnings'
        title: '{{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'
        text: '{{ range .Alerts }}{{ .Annotations.description }}{{ end }}'
        send_resolved: true

  - name: 'pagerduty-critical'
    pagerduty_configs:
      - service_key: 'YOUR_PAGERDUTY_SERVICE_KEY'
        description: '{{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}: {{ .GroupLabels.instance }}'
        severity: 'critical'
        details:
          firing: '{{ .Alerts.Firing | len }}'
          resolved: '{{ .Alerts.Resolved | len }}'

  - name: 'email-info'
    email_configs:
      - to: 'prism-alerts@example.com'
        from: 'alertmanager@example.com'
        smarthost: 'smtp.example.com:587'
        auth_username: 'alertmanager'
        auth_password: 'password'
        headers:
          Subject: 'Prism Alert: {{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'

Alert Rules

Redis Alerts (prometheus-rules/redis.yml):

groups:
  - name: redis-alerts
    interval: 30s
    rules:
      - alert: RedisDown
        expr: up{job="redis"} == 0
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Redis instance down"
          description: "Redis instance {{ $labels.instance }} is down for more than 1 minute"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/redis-down"

      - alert: RedisMemoryHigh
        expr: (redis_memory_used_bytes / redis_memory_max_bytes) > 0.9
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Redis memory usage high"
          description: "Redis instance {{ $labels.instance }} memory usage is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }}"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/redis-memory"

      - alert: RedisEvictionRate
        expr: rate(redis_evicted_keys_total[5m]) > 100
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Redis eviction rate high"
          description: "Redis instance {{ $labels.instance }} evicting {{ $value }} keys/sec"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/redis-evictions"

      - alert: RedisReplicationLag
        expr: redis_replication_lag_seconds > 10
        for: 2m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Redis replication lag high"
          description: "Redis replica {{ $labels.instance }} lagging {{ $value }}s behind master"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/redis-replication-lag"

      - alert: RedisClusterDown
        expr: redis_cluster_state == 0
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Redis cluster unhealthy"
          description: "Redis cluster {{ $labels.cluster }} is in failed state"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/redis-cluster-down"

Proxy Alerts (prometheus-rules/proxy.yml):

groups:
  - name: proxy-alerts
    interval: 30s
    rules:
      - alert: ProxyHighErrorRate
        expr: (rate(prism_proxy_requests_errors_total[5m]) / rate(prism_proxy_requests_total[5m])) > 0.01
        for: 2m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Proxy error rate high"
          description: "Proxy {{ $labels.instance }} error rate is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }}"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/proxy-errors"

      - alert: ProxyHighLatency
        expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(prism_proxy_requests_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) > 0.1
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Proxy p99 latency high"
          description: "Proxy {{ $labels.instance }} p99 latency is {{ $value }}s"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/proxy-latency"

      - alert: ProxyCacheMissRate
        expr: prism_proxy_cache_hit_rate < 0.8
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Proxy cache hit rate low"
          description: "Proxy {{ $labels.instance }} cache hit rate is {{ $value | humanizePercentage }}"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/cache-miss"

      - alert: ProxyConnectionPoolExhausted
        expr: prism_proxy_active_connections / prism_proxy_connection_pool_size > 0.9
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Proxy connection pool nearly exhausted"
          description: "Proxy {{ $labels.instance }} using {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of connection pool"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/connection-pool"

Infrastructure Alerts (prometheus-rules/infrastructure.yml):

groups:
  - name: infrastructure-alerts
    interval: 30s
    rules:
      - alert: HighCPUUsage
        expr: (100 - (avg(irate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m])) * 100)) > 80
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "High CPU usage"
          description: "Instance {{ $labels.instance }} CPU usage is {{ $value }}%"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/high-cpu"

      - alert: HighMemoryUsage
        expr: ((1 - (node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / node_memory_MemTotal_bytes)) * 100) > 90
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "High memory usage"
          description: "Instance {{ $labels.instance }} memory usage is {{ $value }}%"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/high-memory"

      - alert: DiskSpaceLow
        expr: (node_filesystem_avail_bytes / node_filesystem_size_bytes) < 0.1
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Disk space low"
          description: "Instance {{ $labels.instance }} disk {{ $labels.mountpoint }} has {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} free"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/disk-space"

      - alert: NetworkThroughputHigh
        expr: (rate(node_network_transmit_bytes_total[5m]) * 8 / 1e9) > 8
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Network throughput approaching limit"
          description: "Instance {{ $labels.instance }} network throughput is {{ $value }} Gbps (80% of 10 Gbps)"
          runbook: "https://runbooks.example.com/network-saturation"

Observability Costs

Monthly Cost Summary

Component	Cost/month	Notes
Prometheus (self-hosted)	$1,854	5 instances (3 local + 2 global) × c6i.xlarge ($0.17/hour reserved) × 730 hours + 2.5 TB EBS ($0.08/GB)
Grafana (self-hosted)	$248	2 instances × c6i.large ($0.085/hour reserved) × 730 hours + 100 GB EBS
Jaeger	$1,854	3 collectors + 2 query × c6i.large + 3 agents (DaemonSet, no cost)
Cassandra (Jaeger backend)	$1,112	3 nodes × c6i.2xlarge ($0.17/hour reserved) × 730 hours + 1.5 TB EBS
Loki	$372	3 distributors + 2 queriers × t3.medium ($0.0416/hour on-demand) × 730 hours
S3 storage	$407	Thanos (200 GB @ $0.023/GB) + Loki logs (33 GB) + Jaeger overflow
Total	$5,847	vs $35,502 CloudWatch-only (MEMO-077), 84% reduction

Cost Breakdown Rationale:

✅ Self-hosted Prometheus: $30K/month savings vs CloudWatch Metrics (100K custom metrics)
✅ S3 for long-term storage: 96% cheaper than CloudWatch retention
✅ Cassandra for traces: Cheaper than managed tracing (AWS X-Ray at $5/1M spans = $105K/month for 21M spans/sec)
⚠️ Operational overhead: Requires SRE team to manage observability stack

Total Infrastructure + Observability Costs:

Infrastructure (MEMO-077): $938,757/month
Observability: $5,847/month
Total: $944,604/month ($11.3M/year, $34.0M over 3 years)
vs MEMO-076 baseline ($32.4M): 5% higher, acceptable for production observability

Recommendations

Primary Recommendation

Deploy self-hosted observability stack with:

✅ Prometheus HA cluster (3 local + 2 global instances, 30-day retention)
✅ Grafana (2 instances for HA, PostgreSQL backend for dashboard persistence)
✅ Jaeger with Cassandra (3 collectors, 2 query services, 7-day trace retention, 1% sampling)
✅ Loki with S3 backend (7-day log retention, structured JSON logs)
✅ Alertmanager (2 instances for HA, PagerDuty + Slack + email receivers)
✅ Thanos (long-term metrics storage in S3, 1-year retention)

Monthly Cost: $5,847 (84% cheaper than CloudWatch-only approach)

Operational Trade-off: Requires SRE team to manage observability infrastructure, but provides:

Full control over sampling, retention, costs
No vendor lock-in
Integration with existing tools (Grafana, Jaeger)
Significantly lower costs at scale

Dashboard Priorities

Week 1 (production launch):

Infrastructure overview (compute, memory, network)
Redis performance (ops/sec, latency, memory)
Proxy performance (requests/sec, latency, errors)

Week 2 (operational maturity): 4. Network topology (cross-AZ traffic, bandwidth) 5. Cost tracking (instance hours, data transfer)

Week 3 (deep observability): 6. Distributed tracing integration (Jaeger in Grafana Explore) 7. Log correlation (Loki logs linked to traces)

Alert Tuning Strategy

Phase 1: Conservative (first 30 days):

High thresholds to avoid alert fatigue
All critical alerts routed to on-call
Daily alert review meetings

Phase 2: Calibration (30-90 days):

Adjust thresholds based on observed baselines
Add warning alerts for leading indicators
Tune group_wait and group_interval

Phase 3: Mature (90+ days):

Fine-grained alerts with context
Auto-remediation for common issues
Runbooks tested and updated

Next Steps

Week 19: Development Tooling and CI/CD Pipelines

Focus: Build and deployment automation for continuous delivery

Tasks:

CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins)
Docker image builds (Rust proxy, Redis with custom config)
Terraform pipeline (plan, apply, destroy workflows)
Kubernetes manifests management (Helm charts, Kustomize)
Automated testing integration (unit, integration, load tests)

Success Criteria:

Automated deployments from Git commits
Infrastructure changes reviewed and approved before apply
Rollback capability within 5 minutes
Blue/green deployment strategy for proxy updates

Appendices

Appendix A: Prometheus Query Examples

Redis Operations per Second:

sum(rate(redis_commands_processed_total[5m])) by (instance)

Proxy p99 Latency:

histogram_quantile(0.99,
  sum(rate(prism_proxy_requests_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)
)

Cache Hit Rate:

sum(rate(redis_keyspace_hits_total[5m])) /
(sum(rate(redis_keyspace_hits_total[5m])) + sum(rate(redis_keyspace_misses_total[5m])))

Cross-AZ Traffic Percentage:

(sum(rate(node_network_transmit_bytes_total{az!="us-west-2a"}[5m])) /
sum(rate(node_network_transmit_bytes_total[5m]))) * 100

Appendix B: Runbook Template

Title: Redis Instance Down

Severity: Critical

Symptoms:

Alert: RedisDown firing
Prometheus target redis:9121 unreachable
Graph queries returning errors

Investigation:

Check instance health: aws ec2 describe-instance-status --instance-id i-xxxxx
SSH to instance (or use Systems Manager): aws ssm start-session --target i-xxxxx
Check Redis process: systemctl status redis
Check Redis logs: journalctl -u redis -n 100

Resolution:

If process crashed: systemctl restart redis
If instance failed: Terminate instance, Auto Scaling Group will replace
If cluster split-brain: Follow Redis Cluster recovery procedure (link to detailed runbook)

Prevention:

Monitor Redis memory usage (alert before OOM)
Enable Redis persistence (RDB + AOF)
Ensure Auto Scaling Group health checks configured

Appendix C: Observability Validation Checklist

Metrics:

All 2000 instances scraped by Prometheus
No scrape errors in last 24 hours
Prometheus storage utilization <80%
Grafana dashboards loading <500ms
Alert rules validated (test firing)

Tracing:

Jaeger receiving spans from all proxy nodes
Trace sampling rate = 1% (measured)
Cassandra storage utilization <60%
End-to-end traces visible in Grafana Explore
Trace-to-log correlation working

Logging:

Loki receiving logs from all nodes
Logs searchable in Grafana Explore
Log volume <10 GB/day
S3 storage costs <$1/month
No PII in logs (verified with sample queries)

Alerting:

PagerDuty integration tested (test alert sent)
Slack notifications working
Alert grouping configured correctly
Runbooks linked from all alerts
On-call rotation configured

Executive Summary​

Methodology​

Observability Requirements​

Metrics Collection (Prometheus)​

Prometheus Architecture​

Prometheus Configuration​

Prometheus Deployment (Kubernetes)​

Metrics Exporters​

Key Metrics Collected​

Metrics Storage Capacity​

Visualization (Grafana)​

Grafana Deployment​

Datasource Configuration​

Grafana Dashboards​

Dashboard Query Performance​

Distributed Tracing (Jaeger)​

Jaeger Architecture​

Jaeger Deployment​

Cassandra Backend (for Jaeger)​

Trace Sampling Strategy​

Trace Instrumentation (Proxy)​

Logging (Loki)​

Loki Architecture​

Loki Deployment​

Log Collection (Promtail)​

Structured Logging (Proxy)​

Log Retention and Costs​

Alerting (Alertmanager)​

Alertmanager Deployment​

Alertmanager Configuration​

Alert Rules​

Observability Costs​

Monthly Cost Summary​

Recommendations​

Primary Recommendation​

Dashboard Priorities​

Alert Tuning Strategy​

Next Steps​

Week 19: Development Tooling and CI/CD Pipelines​

Appendices​

Appendix A: Prometheus Query Examples​

Appendix B: Runbook Template​

Appendix C: Observability Validation Checklist​

Executive Summary

Methodology

Observability Requirements

Metrics Collection (Prometheus)

Prometheus Architecture

Prometheus Configuration

Prometheus Deployment (Kubernetes)

Metrics Exporters

Key Metrics Collected

Metrics Storage Capacity

Visualization (Grafana)

Grafana Deployment

Datasource Configuration

Grafana Dashboards

Dashboard Query Performance

Distributed Tracing (Jaeger)

Jaeger Architecture

Jaeger Deployment

Cassandra Backend (for Jaeger)

Trace Sampling Strategy

Trace Instrumentation (Proxy)

Logging (Loki)

Loki Architecture

Loki Deployment

Log Collection (Promtail)

Structured Logging (Proxy)

Log Retention and Costs

Alerting (Alertmanager)

Alertmanager Deployment

Alertmanager Configuration

Alert Rules

Observability Costs

Monthly Cost Summary

Recommendations

Primary Recommendation

Dashboard Priorities

Alert Tuning Strategy

Next Steps

Week 19: Development Tooling and CI/CD Pipelines

Appendices

Appendix A: Prometheus Query Examples

Appendix B: Runbook Template

Appendix C: Observability Validation Checklist