Monitoring & Observability
Production-grade monitoring and observability are essential for maintaining reliability, performance, and security. This guide covers the complete observability stack including metrics, traces, logs, and alerts.The MCP Server uses a dual observability stack: OpenTelemetry for infrastructure metrics and traces, plus LangSmith for LLM-specific observability.
Observability Stack
Metrics
Prometheus + Grafana
- Resource utilization
- Request rates
- Error rates
- Custom business metrics
Distributed Tracing
Jaeger + OpenTelemetry
- Request flow visualization
- Latency breakdown
- Service dependencies
- Performance bottlenecks
Logging
Structured JSON Logging
- Centralized log aggregation
- Correlation IDs
- Error tracking
- Audit trails
LLM Observability
LangSmith
- Prompt tracking
- Token usage
- Model performance
- Chain visualization
Monitoring Topics
Explore detailed guides for each monitoring component:Prometheus Metrics
Set up Prometheus for metrics collection, custom business metrics, and application monitoring
Distributed Tracing
Configure Jaeger and OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and performance analysis
Structured Logging
Implement structured JSON logging with correlation IDs and centralized aggregation
LangSmith Integration
Track LLM performance, prompts, and chain execution with LangSmith
Grafana Dashboards
Create comprehensive dashboards for metrics visualization and alerting
Alerting & SLOs
Configure Alertmanager, define SLOs, and set up health checks
Quick Start
For a rapid setup, follow this recommended order:- Prometheus Metrics - Start with metrics collection
- Distributed Tracing - Add tracing for request flow
- Structured Logging - Implement centralized logging
- Grafana Dashboards - Visualize metrics and traces
- Alerting & SLOs - Set up alerts and health checks
- LangSmith Integration - Add LLM-specific observability
Next Steps
Scaling
Auto-scaling configuration
Disaster Recovery
Backup and recovery
Alerting
Alert configuration with Alertmanager
Security Best Practices
Security hardening guide
Ready to Start: Choose a monitoring component above to begin your observability setup!