Observability
If you like applying Observability, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Structured Logging Migration for a Healthcare SaaS Monolith
Receive the current Lograge-flavored Rails logger and 3 sample log files (anonymized PHI). Design: a structured-log JSON schema (request_id, user_id, route, status, duration_ms,…
- Structured Logging
- Loki
- Phi Redaction
Software Observability - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Golden-Path Service Template for a Series-D Scale-Up
Design a golden-path template producing a Go (or Node) microservice with: REST + gRPC scaffolding, structured logging (slog or pino), OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, …
- Platform Engineering
- Golden Paths
- Backstage
Platform Engineering - CodeAdvancedNew
Build an Internal Developer Portal with Backstage for a FinTech
Deploy Backstage on the fintech's existing Kubernetes platform. Build catalog-info.yaml generators that crawl their GitHub orgs (300+ repos) and Jira (ownership tags) to seed th…
- Backstage
- Platform Engineering
- Service Catalog
Platform Engineering - DesignAdvancedNew
Observability for a Microservices Payments Platform
Design the observability architecture: OpenTelemetry traces from 38 services into Tempo, structured logs via Loki, RED (rate, errors, duration) metrics via Prometheus, SLOs defi…
- Observability
- Opentelemetry
- Slo Design
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- CodeAdvancedNew
Roll Out OpenTelemetry Tracing Across a Microservices Fintech
Receive an anonymized service map (90 services, payment-critical path of 12), a runtime mix (Node.js, Go, Java), and existing logging/metrics setup. Define: an OTel SDK adoption…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Sampling Strategies
Software Observability - DesignAdvancedNew
Design SLO-Driven Alerts for a Telco's Subscriber API
Receive a 90-day RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) metrics export for the subscriber API across 6 endpoints and 38 weeks of paging history. Define an SLO per endpoint (e.g., 99.9 per…
- Slo Design
- Alerting
- Prometheus
Software Observability - AnalysisAdvancedNew
Debug Latency Tail With Distributed Tracing on a Logistics SaaS
Receive 7 days of anonymized trace data in Tempo, the service map (12 services), and the customer complaint log. Investigate: filter the slowest 1 percent of traces, identify th…
- Distributed Tracing
- Performance Analysis
- Tempo
Software Observability - StrategyIntermediateNew
Maintenance Plan for a Donated NGO Web Platform
Run an inventory: dependencies (with known-CVE check), secret exposure, test coverage, deploy process, observability, and on-call. Author a 12-month maintenance plan covering pr…
- Software Maintenance
- Dependency Management
- Security Hardening
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- DesignAdvancedNew
Change-Impact Analysis for a Cross-Service API Migration
Pull API logs over 30 days from the API gateway to enumerate all consumers + per-endpoint call volume. Cross-reference with service-catalog ownership to map 23 consumers to team…
- Change Impact Analysis
- Api Migration
- Parallel Run
Software Evolution and Maintenance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cardinality and Cost Control on a Datadog-Based Gaming Platform
Receive an anonymized export of Datadog metric inventory (metric names, tag-cardinality counts, monthly cost per metric, team owner). Identify the top 30 cost-driver metrics, cl…
- Cardinality Control
- Datadog
- Cost Optimization
Software Observability - CodeIntermediateNew
Observability Injection: Distributed Tracing via Sidecars
Enable Envoy tracing with the OpenTelemetry tracer in Istio MeshConfig. Configure a Tempo backend with a Grafana frontend. Verify W3C tracecontext propagation across all 26 serv…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Envoy
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking
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