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Monitoring &
Observability

Dashboards tell you something broke. Observability tells you why. We instrument your whole stack with metrics, logs, and traces so any question about production has an answer in seconds, not a war room.

The Three Pillars
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explore · production
live · 14d
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ActivityActivity iconActivity iconLatency p99
182ms
GaugeGauge iconGauge iconTraffic
24.3k/s
Triangle AlertTriangle Alert iconTriangle Alert iconErrors
0.04%
CpuCpu iconCpu iconSaturation
61%
42 services · 1.2M seriesanswered in 240ms
The Three Pillars

Three Signals, One Story.

Metrics, logs, and traces each answer a different question. Their real power is correlation, jumping from a spike on a graph to the exact trace and log line behind it.

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Metrics

What is happening, and how much?

Cheap, aggregated numbers over time. Perfect for dashboards, trends, and alerting on the whole fleet at once.

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Logs

What exactly happened here?

High-detail, structured events with full context. The ground truth you read when a metric tells you something is wrong.

INFO request ok 200 42ms
WARN retry upstream attempt=2
ERROR db timeout conn=pool-3
INFO circuit half-open
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Traces

Where did the time go?

The path of a single request across every service, with timing at each hop. This is how you find the slow span in a chain of twelve.

Link 2Link 2 iconLink 2 iconCorrelated context, one click from a metric to the trace to the log line behind it.
The Golden Signals

Four Numbers That Tell The Truth.

Ignore the vanity metrics. These four, watched together, catch almost every user-facing problem, and they are where we start on every system we instrument.

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Latency

How long requests take to serve, split by success and failure.

Catches: Slow endpoints and creeping tail latency.

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02

Traffic

How much demand is hitting the system right now.

Catches: Load spikes, drops, and capacity limits.

requests / sec per service
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03

Errors

The rate of requests that fail, explicitly or silently.

Catches: Broken deploys and failing dependencies.

error ratio vs a baseline
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04

Saturation

How full the most constrained resource is.

Catches: Exhaustion before it becomes an outage.

CPU, memory, queue depth
Distributed Tracing

Follow One Request All The Way Down.

When a page is slow, averages lie. A trace shows the exact path of a single request across every service, so the culprit span is impossible to miss.

Git ForkGit Fork iconGit Fork icontrace 7f3a…c21 · 9 spans
total 318ms
GET /checkout
318ms
api-gateway
305ms
cart-service
262ms
auth-check
28ms
pricing-svc
40ms
inventory-svc
38ms
db.query orders
210ms
payment-svc
26ms
render
19ms
ZapZap iconZap icon66% of the latency is a single un-indexed query. Without the trace, you would be guessing.
SLOs & Error Budgets

Reliability As A Budget.

We turn reliability into a number the whole team agrees on. An SLO sets the target, the error budget is what you can spend, and alerts fire on how fast you are burning it, not on every blip.

TargetTarget iconTarget iconAvailability SLO
99.9%
43m budget / 30d
TargetTarget iconTarget iconLatency SLO
99.5%
of requests < 300ms
TargetTarget iconTarget iconWindow
30 days
rolling
GaugeGauge iconGauge icon error budget · this month
62%
62% remaining · 26m left38% spent
budget burn-down30d
Error budget burn-downA sparkline showing the remaining error budget declining over 30 days.A sparkline showing the remaining error budget declining over 30 days.
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1h window0.7×
6h window1.1×
3d window2.4× · alert
Alerting & On-Call

One Page That Actually Matters.

Alert fatigue is a reliability risk of its own. We dedupe, group, and correlate signals so your on-call gets a single, context-rich incident, not a hundred pages at 3am.

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94%
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1st page
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12,400
Raw signals / day
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480
After deduplication
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60
Grouped & correlated
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3
Actionable incidents
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1
Paged to on-call
The Telemetry Pipeline

Instrument Once, Route Anywhere.

We standardise on OpenTelemetry, so your apps emit data in one open format and a central collector ships it to whichever backends you choose. No vendor lock-in on your telemetry.

sources
OTel SDKOTel SDK
PrometheusPrometheus
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OTel Collector
1receive
2process
3export
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Metrics
PrometheusPrometheus
GrafanaGrafana
VictoriaMetricsVictoriaMetrics
Logs
ElasticElastic
KibanaKibana
SplunkSplunk
Traces
JaegerJaeger
GrafanaGrafana
APM & alerting
DatadogDatadog
New RelicNew Relic
SentrySentry
PagerDutyPagerDuty
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Why Plaxonic

Visibility That Pays Off.

Observability is only worth it if it changes outcomes. Here is what teams get once the instrumentation, dashboards, and alerting are done right.

-70%MTTR

Root Cause, Faster

Correlated signals and runbooks mean incidents are understood in minutes, not escalated across three teams for an hour.

94%less noise

Alerts You Can Trust

Dedup and correlation turn an alert storm into one actionable page, so on-call responds instead of muting everything.

100%of services

No Blind Spots

We instrument every service with OpenTelemetry, so there is no dark corner of the stack when something goes wrong.

Openstandards

Yours To Keep

Built on OpenTelemetry and your chosen backends, fully documented and handed over. Your telemetry is never locked in.

Illustrative figures based on typical engagements. Your baseline and targets are modeled up front, never promised blind.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions.

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Still have questions?

Our observability engineers are happy to talk specifics.

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Monitoring watches for problems you already predicted, dashboards and alerts for known failure modes. Observability is being able to ask new questions of your system without shipping new code, so you can debug the failures you did not predict. Monitoring tells you something is wrong; observability lets you find out why. You need both, and we build them together.

Stop Guessing. Start Seeing.

Send us your stack and your worst incident story. We will instrument what matters, cut the noise, and give you the visibility to fix problems before your users feel them.