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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

Script

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