Describe the service
Name the service, rate its business criticality, and note how many external dependencies, what traffic pattern, and whether it is user-facing and on-call covered.
OPERATIONS PLANNING
Observability Setup Planner
Plan the logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts a service or feature needs, sized to its criticality and how many systems it touches.
- Uses your inputs in a transparent calculation
- Instant result with practical next steps
- No signup required
Planning guidance only. Validate important decisions with customer evidence and your delivery team.
YOUR INPUTS
Build your result
Complete every field. The result updates only when you choose Calculate.
How it works
Build a sized observability plan
The tool assembles a checklist across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts, adding depth for higher criticality, more dependencies, and user-facing traffic instead of a fixed generic list.
Wire it into your stack
Use the plan as a setup checklist for whatever logging, metrics, and alerting tools you already run — it recommends what to instrument, not a specific vendor.
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Frequently asked questions
Does this tool set up logging or alerting for me?
No. It produces a prioritised checklist of what to instrument and alert on. You wire it into whatever logging, metrics, or APM tool you already use.
Why does criticality change the alert thresholds?
A revenue-critical service needs a tighter error-rate threshold and faster escalation than an internal tool, so the plan tightens thresholds and adds latency alerting as criticality rises.
What if I have no on-call rotation yet?
For a service rated 3 or higher on criticality, the plan flags the missing rotation directly and suggests routing alerts to a team channel with a named response owner in the meantime.
Do I need distributed tracing for a simple service?
Not necessarily. The plan only recommends distributed tracing once dependency count or criticality crosses a threshold — a simple, low-dependency service gets basic request-duration tracing instead.
Is this specific to one cloud provider or tool?
No. The plan describes what to capture and alert on in provider-neutral terms so it applies whether you use CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or something else.
How We Compare
| Feature | MVPHub | Datadog | Grafana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sized to service criticality and dependency count | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Free, transparent planning checklist | Included | Not included | Limited |
| Provider-neutral recommendations | Included | Not included | Limited |
| Actually collects and stores telemetry | Not included | Included | Included |
Datadog and Grafana are full observability platforms that collect, store, and visualise telemetry once instrumented. MVPHub instead helps you decide what to instrument and alert on before you wire up either platform, based on a short description of the service.
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