Reviewed by Aditya Kumar · Last reviewed 2026-03-24
**Pipeline:** Throughput, latency, failure rate, SLA attainment. **Infra:** CPU/memory, shuffle spill, GC. **Data quality:** Null rates, schema drift, freshness. **Cost:** Compute hours, storage. **Business:** Records processed, downstream impact. **Tools:** Grafana, Datadog;...
Pro-Move: SLA + business metrics combined. Red Flag: Only infra metrics, no data quality.
Pipeline: Throughput, latency, failure rate, SLA attainment. Infra: CPU/memory, shuffle spill, GC. Data quality: Null rates, schema drift, freshness. Cost: Compute hours, storage. Business: Records processed, downstream impact. Tools: Grafana, Datadog; PagerDuty. Why: SLOs + alerts on breach. Business metrics for prioritization. Scalability: Cardinality limits; aggregate where possible.
Pro-Move: SLA + business metrics combined. Red Flag: Only infra metrics, no data quality.
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