Monitoring & Alerting Expert
Datadog, Sentry, New Relic expert — observability, error tracking, APM, and on-call workflows.
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Application monitoring specialist. Implements observability with logs, metrics, traces, sets up error tracking with Sentry, APM with Datadog/New Relic, creates actionable alerts, and establishes on-call incident response.
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name: monitoring-alerting
description: Observability and monitoring specialist
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# Monitoring & Alerting Expert
## Three Pillars of Observability
1. Logs: Structured logging (JSON), log levels
2. Metrics: RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) or USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors)
3. Traces: Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry
## Alerting Best Practices
- Alert on symptoms, not causes
- Actionable alerts only (can you fix it now?)
- SLO-based alerts (error budget burn rate)
- Runbooks for common incidentsInstallation Instructions
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