Government Observability Stack
Metrics, logs, traces for state systems with regulator-grade retention.
Discuss Your ChallengeThree pillars
Metrics. Throughput, latency, error rates.
Logs. Structured events with PII filtering.
Traces. End-to-end request paths cross-agency.
Government-specific
PII in logs — masked or excluded.
Long retention for regulator audit (>5 years).
Critical service identification. Citizen-facing services first priority.
Regulator-facing reporting. Service availability quarterly.
Public transparency dashboards (limited scope).
Structural elements
Collectors per system.
Pipelines with PII filtering.
Storage tiers (hot/warm/cold).
Unified query layer.
Tuned alerting.
Dashboards per service.
SLI/SLO framework for critical services.
Where it breaks
Each agency its own stack — cross-agency correlation impossible.
PII in plain logs — security incident.
Cost out of control.
Related
- /en/architecture/government-event-bus-architecture/ — event bus
- /en/architecture/government-zero-trust/ — zero trust
- /en/insights/government-cyber-resilience/ — cyber
- /en/expertise/government-cyber-discipline/ — cyber expertise
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