Observability

Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, recorded as logs, metrics, and traces. At Pair Team we Datadog to:

1. Centralize logs and traces
2. Track errors (see Error Management for more details.)

Tracing

• Official Datadog gem named dd-trace to instrument code and handle traces.
• Arc-api config: config/initializers/datadog.rb

Reference info

• DD-Trace Getting Started
• Datadog APM and Distributed Tracing
• Datadog Tracing Ruby Applications

Logging

• We use JSON structured logging with the ougai gem.
• Arc-api config: config/initializers/logger_config.rb
• Datadog Logs home

AWS - Datadog logs forwarding

Reference info

• Datadog Log Management
• Datadog Standard Attributes & Conventions