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Dashboards that nobody trusts

When the dashboard says green and customers are tweeting red, the dashboard isn't observability. We rebuild signals around user-visible outcomes, not box health.

Tracing that ends at the load balancer

Distributed traces that don't follow a request through every hop are a partial answer at best. We instrument the gaps — async jobs, third-party calls, ML inference — until "where did the time go?" has a one-click answer.

Log spend that grew faster than the company

Datadog and Splunk bills doubling year over year is fixable. Sampling, tiering, structured-log discipline, and selective indexing typically cut spend 50–70% without losing investigative power.

How it works

  1. Phase 01

    Signal audit

    Two-week deep dive into your current dashboards, alerts, and trace coverage. We document what users actually feel vs. what your monitoring measures.

  2. Phase 02

    SLI / SLO design

    Service-by-service SLI selection (availability, latency, correctness) and SLO targets that drive decisions, with error budgets that ship to product and engineering jointly.

  3. Phase 03

    Instrumentation uplift

    OpenTelemetry-first auto-instrumentation, structured logs with consistent fields, RED/USE method dashboards, and trace propagation through every async hop.

  4. Phase 04

    Alert hygiene + runbooks

    Every page comes with a runbook. Alerts on symptoms, not causes. Page volume drops 50–80% in the first month after the cleanup pass.

What you get

  • SLI/SLO definitions for top services (with error-budget burn dashboards)
  • Golden-signal dashboards per service (Grafana or Datadog)
  • OpenTelemetry instrumentation rollout plan
  • Alert library with linked runbooks
  • Log/metric/trace cost report with prioritized savings

What changes for you

Quieter pagers

Most clients see a 50–80% reduction in page volume in month one — without missing real incidents.

Investigation in minutes, not hours

Traces that follow requests end-to-end and dashboards that answer the next question turn 4-hour incident reviews into 20-minute ones.

Observability cost under control

Sampling discipline, tiered storage, and aggressive log structuring usually cut spend 50–70% — money you can put into reliability work.

Vendor-flexible architecture

We build OpenTelemetry-first so you're not locked into a single vendor. Switching from Datadog to Grafana Cloud (or back) becomes a config change, not a project.

SLO conversations product can join

Error budgets give product, engineering, and SRE a shared language for trading off velocity vs. reliability.

Faster incident commander training

Standardized dashboards mean any engineer in rotation can drive an incident response, not just the senior on-call.

What clients say

"CloudWizz rebuilt our delivery pipeline in eight weeks. Deploys went from a Friday-night ritual to a non-event we ship four times a day."

Director of Engineering

Fintech, Series C · 2025-11

"They turned a CFO emergency into a board-ready story in 12 weeks. The dashboards alone changed how engineering thinks about cost."

VP Engineering

Series B SaaS · 2026-01

Frequently asked questions

Datadog, Grafana, New Relic — does it matter which? +

Less than vendors say. The discipline matters more than the toolset. We work with what you have unless there's a clear gap.

How do you handle high-cardinality metrics? +

Aggressive cardinality budgets, selective recording rules, and where appropriate, separating hot/cold metric storage. The expensive habit is unbounded labels — we kill those first.

Can you migrate us off Splunk / Datadog to OSS? +

Yes. Common migrations are Splunk → Grafana Loki, Datadog → Grafana Cloud or Prometheus + Tempo. We design the migration, run it in parallel, and validate parity before cutover.

How do you handle observability for AI/LLM workloads? +

Standard signals (latency, throughput, error rate) plus LLM-specific ones — token-cost-per-request, cache hit rate, eval scores. Langfuse or Phoenix sit alongside the standard stack.

Do you cover synthetic monitoring? +

Yes — k6, Datadog Synthetics, or Checkly depending on your stack. Synthetic checks are part of the SLO definition, not a separate concern.

How long is a typical engagement? +

8–12 weeks for the assessment + first wave of instrumentation. Many clients retain a one-or-two-day-a-week advisory after.

Do you write runbooks for us? +

We provide templates plus the first 5–10 written together with your engineers. Long-term, runbooks belong with the team that owns the service.

Can you help reduce alert fatigue? +

Yes — alert hygiene is a standard part of every observability engagement. The data tells you which alerts page humans without producing actionable work.

What about chaos engineering? +

Useful — once SLOs and observability are in place. Chaos before observability is just breaking things.

How do you measure success? +

Page volume, MTTR, error-budget consumption, and observability spend. Each becomes an SLI on the engagement itself.

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