Observability

10 pages in this section.

Production Go: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Signals

Learn to implement a full observability stack for Go services using logs, metrics, traces, and signals to understand system behavior in production.

Go Observability Explainer Production

Observability Basics

Learn observability basics with 9 Go examples. Implement default and JSON slog loggers for structured logging in your applications.

Go Observability Basics Examples

Structured Logging with slog

Learn to implement structured logging in Go with log/slog. Configure handlers, levels, and attributes for JSON or text output, and migrate from log.Printf.

Go Observability Structured Logging

Prometheus Metrics & RED/USE Dashboards

Go Observability Advanced Prometheus

OpenTelemetry Tracing in Go Services

Go Observability Advanced Opentelemetry

Health, Readiness & Liveness Probes

Implement liveness, readiness, and startup probes to ensure Kubernetes and load balancers correctly manage application health and traffic.

Go Observability Health Readiness

Graceful Shutdown & Signal Handling

Gracefully shut down Go applications by handling SIGTERM/SIGINT signals, draining HTTP requests, and coordinating background worker shutdowns.

Go Observability Graceful Shutdown

Configuration Management: Env, Flags & Viper

Learn to manage service configuration using environment variables, CLI flags, and Viper for 12-factor deploys with optional hot-reloading.

Go Observability Configuration Management

Observability Best Practices

Learn best practices for Go service observability, including structured logging, consistent attribute naming, and cardinality control for metrics.

Go Observability Best Practices List

Observability Highlights Summary

A single-page roundup of every highlight bullet from the 9 pages in the Observability section, grouped by source page so you can scan all 53 takeaways without opening each article individually.

Highlights Summary Observability

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