service-mesh-observability

Implement comprehensive observability for service meshes including distributed tracing, metrics, and visualization. Use when setting up mesh monitoring, debugging latency issues, or implementing SLOs for service communication.

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Validation — 11 / 11 Passed

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Evaluation results

92%

Production Alert Setup for E-Commerce Service Mesh

Prometheus alerting rules for Istio mesh

Criteria

Without context

With context

PrometheusRule CRD

100%

istio-system namespace

100%

reporter=destination filter

100%

istio_requests_total metric

100%

Error rate threshold

100%

Error rate severity critical

100%

Latency metric name

100%

Latency threshold 1000ms

100%

Latency severity warning

100%

Alert for duration

100%

Cert expiry alert

100%

P99 quantile function

100%

Without context: $0.4006 · 2m 4s · 12 turns · 61 in / 7,547 out tokens

With context: $0.5859 · 2m 7s · 28 turns · 339 in / 6,163 out tokens

95%

39%

Distributed Tracing Infrastructure for Multi-Environment Microservices Platform

Distributed tracing configuration and sampling

Criteria

Without context

With context

Jaeger image version

100%

Zipkin port 9411

30%

100%

Dev sampling 100%

100%

Prod sampling 1-10%

100%

OTel batch timeout

50%

OTel OTLP gRPC endpoint

100%

OTel Zipkin receiver

100%

Telemetry v2 randomSampling

100%

Jaeger Zipkin env var

100%

istio-system namespace

100%

No 100% prod sampling

100%

Without context: $0.6944 · 3m 19s · 21 turns · 22 in / 12,361 out tokens

With context: $1.0046 · 4m 21s · 31 turns · 29 in / 15,685 out tokens

100%

18%

Service Mesh Visibility Platform for Platform Engineering Team

Mesh visualization, dashboards, and metrics queries

Criteria

Without context

With context

Kiali prometheus URL

100%

Kiali tracing URL

100%

Kiali grafana URL

100%

nodeGraph topology panel

100%

reporter=destination in queries

100%

istio_requests_total metric

100%

Latency P99 PromQL

100%

Scrape interval 15s

100%

ServiceMonitor CRD

100%

Kiali CRD apiVersion

100%

istio-system namespace placement

100%

Error rate panel uses 5xx filter

100%

Without context: $1.0326 · 4m 40s · 22 turns · 22 in / 21,974 out tokens

With context: $0.5618 · 2m 6s · 21 turns · 19 in / 7,401 out tokens

Evaluated: 3 days ago
Agent: Claude Code

Table of Contents

Production Alert Setup for E-Commerce Service Mesh Distributed Tracing Infrastructure for Multi-Environment Microservices Platform Service Mesh Visibility Platform for Platform Engineering Team

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