Observability Audit
Thorough analysis of your current monitoring stack. Identification of blind spots, overlap, and optimization opportunities. Result: a clear roadmap.
Observability Architecture
Complex systems.
Clear insight.
We design and implement observability strategies for international enterprises. From monitoring chaos to structured insight — so your team acts faster during incidents and makes better decisions.
15+ Years Experience
Tool-agnostic
Enterprise & Scale-up
The Observability Pipeline
Metrics
Traces
Logs
Correlation · Analysis · Alerting
Dynatrace · OpenTelemetry · Grafana · Datadog
Directly Applicable Insight
Faster MTTR · Better decisions · Less noise
Knowledge base
What does an Observability Architect do?
An observability architect designs the strategy that gives your organization insight into the health, performance, and behavior of complex IT systems. The difference with traditional monitoring? Observability goes beyond alerts — it answers questions you haven't asked yet. Every term used here is explained in the glossary.
The problem
Monitoring lacks context
Traditional monitoring only alerts when it's too late. Dashboards full of noise, no correlation between services, long incident times.
The approach
Observability as strategy
Structured telemetry (metrics, traces, logs) correlated into insights. Proactive instead of reactive. Context with every alert.
The result
Act faster, decide better
Shorter MTTR, less alert fatigue, data-driven decision-making. Your team knows exactly where the problem is — and why.
Services
How we help
Performance Engineering
Stress testing, bottleneck analysis, and capacity planning. We find the weak spots before your customers do.
Tooling & Implementation
Tool-agnostic advice and implementation. We work with what your organization already has, or recommend the best choice if you're just starting out.
Strategy & Enablement
End-to-end observability strategy. From architecture to team training. We build the foundation your SRE team can thrive on.
Approach
How an engagement works
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Strategy call
Thirty minutes, free and without obligation. You outline your environment and your question; we tell you honestly whether and how we can help.
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Audit
Two to four weeks. We map your current monitoring: blind spots, overlap, cost and the questions you cannot get answered. Result: a roadmap with priorities.
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Implementation
We build the strategy into your environment, with the tooling you already have or the choice that fits best. Instrumentation, dashboards, alerts and privacy policy, step by step into production.
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Enablement
Your team takes over: training, runbooks and a handover in which every decision is written down. We stay available, but you no longer need us.
From our practice
Belderbrandt: observability for a website where every appointment counts
A mortgage adviser without an ops team wanted to see within thirty seconds whether booking and contact work. We built in error monitoring, privacy by design and performance measurement from day one, and made failure signals visible that status codes kept hidden.
Read the case →Success stories
Proven results
MTTR from 45 to 8 minutes
Observability strategy for a bank with 200+ microservices. Integrated tracing and log correlation.
-82%
incident
response time
response time
Black Friday: zero downtime
Performance engineering and stress testing for a major online retailer. Bottlenecks found and resolved before peak traffic.
0
incidents
during peak
during peak
Alert noise reduced by 90%
Monitoring restructured at a healthcare platform. From 200+ daily alerts to only relevant notifications.
-90%
unnecessary
alerts
alerts
Certifications & Tooling
Dynatrace
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
Grafana / Prometheus
Kubernetes
AWS / Azure
Elastic Stack
Splunk
Frequently asked questions
FAQ
What is the difference between monitoring and observability?
Monitoring tells you that something is wrong. Observability tells you why — and gives your team the tools to understand new, unforeseen problems without knowing what to look for in advance.
How long does a typical observability project take?
An audit typically takes 2-4 weeks. A full implementation 2-6 months, depending on the complexity of your environment.
Are you tied to one tool or platform?
No. We are tool-agnostic. Does your organization already use a platform? We work with it. Just starting out? We recommend the best choice for your situation.
What type of company is this relevant for?
Any organization with multiple applications, microservices, or hybrid cloud environments. From scale-ups to publicly traded companies — wherever downtime costs money.
What is the difference between APM and observability?
APM tracks the performance and errors of applications, usually with automatic instrumentation and ready-made dashboards. Observability goes further: it correlates metrics, traces and logs across every component, including infrastructure and external integrations, so you can also answer questions the tooling did not anticipate. APM is often a good part of an observability strategy.
Does observability work for a small website too?
Yes, especially there. A small site rarely has an ops team, so the monitoring itself has to say whether the key flows work. In our case for belderbrandt.nl one person sees within thirty seconds whether booking and contact are healthy, with alerts as a safety net.
Should I start with OpenTelemetry?
OpenTelemetry is the open standard for collecting metrics, traces and logs, independent of the platform you send them to. For new instrumentation it is usually the best choice, because you can switch platforms later without changing your code. You do not have to throw away existing agents for it.
What is the difference between an SLO and an SLA?
An SLO is an internal target for a measurement, for example 99.5 percent successful requests per month. An SLA is a contractual promise to a customer, with consequences if it is missed. Set the SLO stricter than the SLA, so you act before a customer notices anything.
peekmon.io
Peekmon supports and enriches your existing observability tools. It collects data from multiple sources and feeds your monitoring stack with structured insight.
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