Operations at Level 1

You don’t wait for Level 4 to use these

From day one with infrastructure monitoring, you have access to powerful operational tools. The same tools work at every level; only the scope changes.

Here’s what they look like at Level 1

Alerting

What to alert on	Example
Host health	CPU > 90%, memory > 85%, disk > 80%
Integration status	MySQL connection failed, NGINX not responding
Basic availability	Host unreachable, service down

Dashboards

Dashboard type	What you see
Pre-built integration dashboards	Comes with every integration for instant visibility
Infrastructure overview	All hosts, key metrics at a glance
Custom dashboards	Combine metrics from multiple integrations

Investigation

Tool	How you use it at Level 1
Explore	Ad-hoc queries on metrics and logs
Drilldown apps	Click from dashboard → detailed investigation
Logs → Metrics correlation	“What was happening on this host when CPU spiked?”

SLOs

SLO Example	Target
Host uptime	99.9% of hosts healthy
Database availability	99.5% connection success rate

These same tools grow with you. At Level 2, you’ll alert on services. At Level 3, on transactions. At Level 4, on custom metrics. The concepts stay the same; only the scope changes.

Here’s something important: you don’t have to wait until Level 4 to use operational tools like alerting and dashboards. They’re available from day one.

At Level 1, your alerts are infrastructure-focused. CPU over 90 percent? Alert. Disk filling up past 80 percent? Alert. Database connection failed? Alert. These are the basics, and they’re incredibly valuable.

Your dashboards come largely for free. Every integration includes pre-built visualizations. And when you need to dig deeper, Explore lets you run ad-hoc queries against your metrics and logs.

You can even set up SLOs at this level, like targeting 99.9 percent host uptime. It’s more advanced, but it’s available when you’re ready.

The beautiful thing is that these same operational tools grow with you. At Level 2, you’ll alert on service health. At Level 3, on transaction patterns. At Level 4, on custom metrics. The concepts stay the same; only the scope changes.