Understand service health and who is using resources.

Operational visibility should connect a service to its owner, environment, health, and usage. Keep the monitoring services you rely on and agree the information your teams need in their platform workflow.

Illustrative workflow

1. CollectLogs, metrics, and traces stay in your monitoring tool.
2. AttributeSignals linked to a service, owner, and environment.
3. RespondThe responsible team sees what changed.
4. Report usageInfrastructure and AI usage by team.

Bring your monitoring backend

Your chosen monitoring service remains the destination for logs, metrics, and traces. Review the supported connection, the information collected, and what must be excluded or redacted. Visibility should not require an unexplained second copy of application data.

Connect signals to ownership

Choose the health indicators that matter to a service and identify who responds when they change. Agree where alerts are handled and what service-level objectives mean for your team.

Attribute usage before setting budgets

Infrastructure and AI usage become more useful when assigned to a team or environment. Review the source of each cost estimate, reporting delays, and shared-cost allocation. Estimated usage should be clearly distinguished from a provider’s final invoice.

Example evaluation

Choose one service, one monitoring destination, and one team. Review whether an operator can identify an issue, find the responsible owner, and understand the resources associated with that service.