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Create and manage production Grafana dashboards for real-time visualization of system and application metrics. Use when building monitoring dashboards, visualizing metrics, or creating operational observability interfaces.

Implement comprehensive observability for service meshes including distributed tracing, metrics, and visualization. Use when setting up mesh monitoring, debugging latency issues, or implementing SLOs for service communication.

Perform capacity planning using historical metrics and growth models. Use predict_linear for forecasting, identify resource constraints, calculate headroom, and recommend scaling actions before saturation. Use before seasonal traffic spikes or product launches, during quarterly capacity reviews, when resource utilization trends upward, or before budget planning cycles.

Establish Service Level Objectives (SLO), Service Level Indicators (SLI), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) with error budget tracking, burn rate alerts, and automated reporting using Prometheus and tools like Sloth or Pyrra. Use when defining reliability targets for customer-facing services, balancing feature velocity against system reliability through error budgets, migrating from arbitrary uptime goals to data-driven metrics, or implementing Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Capture outbound HTTP and telemetry from a CLI harness at runtime. Covers capture-channel selection (transcript file vs verbose-fetch stderr vs outbound proxy vs on-disk state), hook-driven per-event capture vs long-running session capture, JSONL output format for diff-friendly artifacts, and the observability table that maps each target to the cheapest channel that captures it. Use when a static finding needs runtime confirmation, when a payload shape is needed for a client re-implementation, or when dark-vs-live disambiguation requires watching what the binary actually sends.

Unify metrics, logs, and traces for cohesive debugging. Implement exemplars for log-to-trace linking, build unified dashboards using RED/USE methods, and enable rapid root cause analysis across observability signals. Use when investigating complex incidents spanning multiple systems, reducing mean time to resolution, implementing distributed tracing, or moving from siloed tools to a unified observability platform.