Why it matters
Connect traces, metrics and logs to the experience customers actually receive.
Start a technical decision with business constraints. Establish who will operate the solution, how success will be measured and what happens when it fails.
When to reconsider
Collecting every signal without retention budgets creates cost and noise.
A practical first step
Choose one representative workflow. Measure the baseline, compare at least two options and record the trade-offs in an ADR. Expand only after validating the result.
Start with a technical conversation
dotnet new webapi -n YourNextChapter