Observability·2023·Network Engineer
Network Monitoring Stack
Built an open-source observability stack giving the team real-time visibility and proactive alerting.
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Overview
The team learned about outages from users. There was no central place to see the health of the network.
The challenge
Legacy gear only spoke SNMP and Syslog, and we needed dashboards non-engineers could actually read.
The approach
I collected metrics with Telegraf and SNMP, stored them in Prometheus, and built role-based Grafana dashboards plus alerting on the signals that actually predict incidents.
Results
The team now catches degradation before users do, and incident post-mortems have real data instead of guesswork.