How we plan to build more observability tools on GitLab monitoring

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This post details GitLab's vision and roadmap for building out its observability capabilities, focusing on closing the DevOps loop. It highlights the development of new monitoring products for application performance and deployment health, with priorities in metrics, cluster monitoring, and incident management. Key aspects include ease of instrumentation, seamless insight gathering, and proactive response to SLO degradation. The post mentions existing Prometheus integration for Kubernetes metrics, MVC stage development for logging, tracing, and APM, and plans for cluster cost optimization and alerting. It also emphasizes dogfooding the incident management system and extending monitoring capabilities to GitLab self-managed instances.