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Operational practices overview

Operational practices

What you learned in Module 5:

  • Custom instrumentation goes beyond auto-instrumentation.
  • Add application-specific metrics, spans, and context.
  • Answer questions auto-instrumentation can’t address.

What you’ll do in this module:

You’ll explore cross-cutting operational capabilities:

  • Why a separate section — Capabilities that span all four levels
  • Alerting and IRM — Detecting and responding to problems
  • Grafana Assistant — AI-powered observability acceleration
  • Proactive testing — Finding problems before users do
  • Platform management — Governing observability at scale

Estimated time: 10 minutes

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You’ve learned about the four levels of observability, from infrastructure to custom instrumentation. Excellent foundation.

Now let’s explore Operational Practices. These capabilities don’t fit neatly into a single level—they span all of them. In this module, you’ll learn about alerting and incident response, Grafana Assistant, proactive testing, and platform management.

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