Summary

In this chapter, we have explored the process of architecting the data fields that will be collected. You will be able to use this knowledge to structure data in a Grafana platform so it is easy to use across your organization. We have discussed the process of architecting data production by applications and offering standard guidance on the best application structure to use. This will account for most needs of the developers in the organization. We shared several levels of complexity for the data collection architecture. You can use these as a starting point for architecting your own system. We discussed the various tools that are available to validate an architectural design: both tools for running local infrastructure and tools to simulate data that is being collected. This will help in producing a pipeline for delivering the infrastructure for an observability platform that you can rely on. Finally, we briefly discussed how to share data with other consumers, either in...