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Enterprise Observability

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monitoring
monitoring
observability
observability
prometheus
prometheus
grafana
grafana
thanos
thanos
zabbix
zabbix

Architecture Visual

flowchart TD subgraph collection ["Collection Layer"] direction TB telegraf("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/telegraf.svg' /><span>Telegraf Agents</span></div>") prom_agents("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/prometheus.svg' /><span>Prometheus Edge</span></div>") zabbix_snmp("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/zabbix.svg' /><span>Zabbix SNMP</span></div>") end subgraph storage ["Storage & Query"] direction TB thanos("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/thanos.svg' /><span>Thanos Global</span></div>") influxdb("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/influxdb.svg' /><span>InfluxDB Logs</span></div>") jaeger("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/jaeger.svg' /><span>Jaeger Traces</span></div>") end subgraph visualization ["Analysis & UI"] direction TB grafana("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/grafana.svg' /><span>Grafana Dashboards</span></div>") alertmanager("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/prometheus.svg' /><span>Alert Manager</span></div>") end subgraph targets ["Monitoring Targets"] k8s_cluster("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/tech/kubernetes.svg' /><span>K8s Clusters</span></div>") legacy_hw("<div class='tech-node'><img src='/icons/inframap/compute.png' /><span>Legacy Servers</span></div>") end k8s_cluster --> prom_agents legacy_hw --> telegraf legacy_hw --> zabbix_snmp telegraf --> influxdb prom_agents --> thanos zabbix_snmp --> influxdb thanos --> grafana influxdb --> grafana jaeger --> grafana grafana --> alertmanager

Enterprise Observability

Unified platform for monitoring large-scale infrastructure and applications.

Description

This blueprint provides a high-availability observability architecture designed for modern cloud-native environments. It integrates Prometheus for metrics collection, Thanos for long-term storage and global querying, and Grafana for visualization. It also includes Zabbix for legacy hardware/network monitoring and Jaeger for distributed tracing. Data ingestion is handled by Telegraf and Prometheus agents across the environment.

Architecture Highlights

  • Global Visibility: Thanos provides a unified query interface across multiple Prometheus instances, enabling global views and high availability.
  • Long-term Retention: Metrics are offloaded to object storage (e.g., S3, GCS) for cost-effective, multi-year history.
  • Hybrid Monitoring: Bridges the gap between modern ephemeral workloads (Prometheus) and traditional bare-metal infrastructure (Zabbix).
  • Distributed Tracing: Jaeger allows for deep analysis of request flows across microservices, identifying latency bottlenecks.

Expert Take

[!TIP] Performance Optimization When scaling Prometheus, leverage recording rules for high-cardinality metrics. This reduces the load on Thanos during dashboard refreshes. Always use PromQL optimization techniques like avoiding large range lookups in heavy dashboards.

Scalability Note

This architecture is horizontally scalable. Prometheus can be sharded by namespace or service, while Thanos Query and Store nodes can be scaled out to handle increased query volume and data history.

Tech Stack

Component Technology
Metrics Collector Prometheus, Telegraf
Query Layer Thanos (Global View)
Visualization Grafana
Tracing Jaeger
Legacy Monitor Zabbix
Time Series DB InfluxDB, Prometheus

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