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When setting up monitoring for Istio/Linkerd service meshes, debugging latency or errors across services, defining SLOs for service communication, or visualizing service dependencies.
references/details.md for concrete templates and worked examplesA structured observability setup for service meshes: clear metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, and SLO definitions that reduce MTTR and improve reliability.
Use Cases
A platform team adopts Istio but lacks visibility into cross-service latency. Using this skill, they apply the three-pillar model and golden signals, configure sampling and trace propagation, and build dashboards. They quickly locate a slow upstream service and define P99 SLOs, reducing incident diagnosis time from hours to minutes.
An SRE team needs SLOs for service-to-service communication in Linkerd. They use the skill's golden-signal thresholds and exemplar correlation guidance to set error-rate and latency objectives, then wire alerts. This establishes clear reliability targets and automates breach notification for on-call engineers.
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