Enterprise Observability
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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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