Partial coverage creates false confidence — dashboards look complete while critical paths are dark.
OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
Instrument priority services with OpenTelemetry — without boiling the ocean
Instrumentation projects stall when every team invents its own pattern. You need consistent traces and metrics on the services that matter most, with collectors and attributes that downstream tools can trust.
Priority services first Standards-based Validated signals Dev handover
Why this matters
Why this matters
Delayed instrumentation means blind spots during incidents and weak evidence for SLO and capacity decisions.
Sampling misconfiguration can hide latency outliers when you need them most.
Handover gaps return teams to ad hoc debugging and vendor-specific agents.
What you get
Clear outputs you can use
Scoped implementation of OpenTelemetry for agreed applications or platforms: SDK/auto-instrumentation, collector handoff, validation, and developer handover.
- ✓ Instrumentation for agreed service list (auto and/or manual as scoped)
- ✓ Resource attribute standards applied on implemented paths
- ✓ Validation report: trace/metric presence in target backends
- ✓ Developer runbook for onboarding the next service
Why teams talk to GKC
Calm, practical, and grounded in the environment you already have
Acceptance tied to observable signals in your backends — not “code merged”
Works alongside existing agents during phased migration
GKC platform teams coordinate with Bindplane/Cribl/Splunk/Grafana owners as needed
What happens next
A straightforward first step
We keep the first step straightforward so you can understand fit, scope, and likely value before deciding what to do next.
1
Confirm scope and standards
We lock the service list, attribute conventions, sampling approach, and collector endpoints.
2
Implement and validate
Instrumentation is added in your delivery process with CI-friendly checks and staging validation.
3
Hand over to product teams
Developers receive patterns, examples, and a checklist for the next services in the wave.
Questions teams often have
Common questions
Our developers should own instrumentation. Why GKC?
We establish the golden path and implement the first wave so internal teams copy proven patterns — not experiment under incident pressure.
Can you instrument legacy monoliths?
Often yes, via auto-instrumentation or targeted manual spans. We call out exceptions during scoping rather than promise universal coverage.
What if our collectors are not ready?
Collector readiness is a dependency check in week one. We can pair with collector hardening or Bindplane rollout in the same programme.
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Grafana
Grafana Stack Assessment
A focused assessment of your Grafana/LGTM posture: signal coverage, architecture options, cost drivers, and a prioritised plan for the next 90 days.
Next step
Start with a practical conversation
We can talk through the environment, what is making this feel urgent or uncertain, and whether this service is the right fit. If another starting point makes more sense, we will say so.