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Observability and reliability

Instrument a service with OpenTelemetry-spec traces, metrics, and logs, understand why agent traces are kept as evidence, and reason about reliability through SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and the policy that turns a spent budget into a release freeze.

Units5
Duration26 min
Levelintermediate

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe Cogitave's telemetry model - OpenTelemetry-spec traces, metrics, and logs under one correlation, bound to the Core model and queryable from MCP.
  • Explain what AI/agent observability adds - the agent trace, token and cost, eval drift, and inference records kept as responsible-AI evidence.
  • Define an SLI, an SLO, and an error budget, and compute a budget from an SLO and a window.
  • State the error-budget policy - the rule that converts a spent budget into a per-service feature freeze - and why the SLA is always looser than the SLO.
  • Read the observability and reliability standards as the source of truth and follow them for the detail.

Units

  1. 01Introduction4 min
  2. 02Instrument for observability7 min
  3. 03Reliability and SLOs8 min
  4. 04Knowledge check4 min
  5. 05Summary3 min