Many teams deploy APIs without truly understanding how they behave in production. Latency spikes, partial outages, and downstream failures often go unnoticed until users complain.

In this session, I’ll show how DevOps engineers can implement effective API observability using cloud-native and open-source tooling. We’ll break down what to measure (RED and USE metrics), how to correlate logs and traces across microservices, and how to design alerts that actually signal real problems.

The talk is grounded in real operational scenarios from cloud environments, including multi-service architectures and third-party API dependencies.

Attendees will leave with a clear mental model for monitoring APIs as first-class production systems.