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Know what you need before committing to a platform.
Observability Consulting & Assessment.
An analysis of your current observability: what you see, what you don't, what it costs and what to do first.
The problem we solve.
Observability tends to grow in pieces: each team with its own tool, its own agents and its own dashboards. When an incident hits, nobody has the full picture and diagnosis depends on who's on call.
What’s included.
- Interviews with development, operations and the business
- Inventory of tools, agents and signals
- Review of recent incidents and how they were detected
- Cost analysis and unused data
- Roadmap towards Splunk Observability Cloud
How we work.
Five phases, always in the same order. Select each one to see what happens in it. In full projects they map onto the stages of our method.
We review what's monitored today, with which tools, which incidents went unnoticed and what it costs.
We design the collection layer with OpenTelemetry: agents, gateways, egress paths, common attributes and sampling.
We run the interviews, inventory tools and signals, and review how recent incidents were detected.
We check our conclusions with each team before finalising the roadmap.
We tune cardinality, sampling and detectors based on real usage to contain cost and noise.
Technical capabilities.
- OpenTelemetry
- Splunk Observability Cloud
- SLIs and SLOs
- Cardinality analysis
- Service map
- Maturity assessment
Use cases.
Several overlapping tools
Decide what to consolidate and in what order.
Incidents detected late
Understand why and how to avoid it.
Benefits for your organisation.
- Clear priorities
- Visibility of current cost
- A realistic phased plan
- Shared criteria across teams
Deliverables.
- Situation report
- Inventory of signals and tools
- Prioritised roadmap
- Presentation session
Frequently asked questions.
Do we have to use Splunk Observability Cloud afterwards?
No. The analysis helps you decide; we recommend what fits your situation.
Do you also review logs?
Yes, because correlation between metrics, traces and logs is part of the diagnosis.
How much time do we need to dedicate?
A few interviews per team and one point of contact available during the analysis.
Shall we talk about Consulting & Assessment?
Tell us about your situation. If this service is not what you need, we will tell you; if it is, we will propose a concrete first step.
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