Start with one golden path: request ID in logs, error boundaries that log with context, and a single dashboard for error rate and latency.
Alert on symptoms (SLO burn, error spikes) rather than every log line. Noise kills on-call trust.
2026 · 4 min read
Observability without a dedicated SRE team
Logs, metrics, and traces you can afford—enough to debug production in minutes, not days.