Building a Production-Grade Observability Platform with LGTM Stack, DORA Metrics & SLOs
The article outlines the development of a production-grade observability platform using the open-source LGTM stack—Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Prometheus—combined with DORA metrics and SLOs. The solution is deployed via a single Docker Compose command and emphasizes cost efficiency, data sovereignty, and infrastructure as code. It enables comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis without reliance on proprietary tools.
- ▪The observability platform is built using the LGTM stack: Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Grafana for visualization.
- ▪DORA metrics, SLI/SLOs, and automated alerting to Slack are integrated to measure software delivery performance and reliability.
- ▪The entire stack is deployed using Docker Compose, runs on a single server, and avoids vendor lock-in with open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus exposition format.
- ▪Self-hosting the LGTM stack reduces costs at scale and ensures sensitive data remains within internal infrastructure.
- ▪All configurations are code-driven with no manual UI setup, enabling full automation and reproducibility.
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