Monitoring & Observability Overview

VibeCode supports multiple observability platforms to accommodate different licensing and infrastructure requirements. Our hybrid approach provides enterprise features while maintaining vendor independence.

Architecture Overview

The platform deploys a three-tier monitoring stack that works together seamlessly:

graph TD
    A[Applications] --> B[Vector Data Pipeline]
    A --> C[Datadog Agent]
    A --> D[Prometheus]

    B --> E[Datadog Cloud]
    B --> F[Custom Backends]
    C --> E
    D --> G[Prometheus Storage]
    G --> H[Grafana Dashboards]

    E --> I[Datadog UI]
    H --> J[Open Source UI]

Primary Stack: Datadog + Prometheus + Vector Hybrid

Components

• Datadog Agent + Cluster Agent: Full-featured SaaS platform (commercial license)
• Prometheus: Open source metrics collection (Apache 2.0 license)
• Vector: High-performance log/metrics router (MPL-2.0 license, by Datadog)

Benefits

• ✅ Enterprise Features: Advanced alerting, APM, synthetic monitoring
• ✅ Vendor Independence: Prometheus provides backup metrics collection
• ✅ High Performance: Vector handles high-throughput data routing
• ✅ Cost Optimization: Use open source for development, commercial for production
• ✅ Future Flexibility: Easy migration between platforms

Alternative Options

OpenTelemetry Collector

• License: Apache 2.0 (permissive open source)
• Use Case: Vendor-neutral telemetry collection
• Benefits: CNCF standard, works with any backend

Grafana

• License: AGPL v3 (open source with copyleft)
• Use Case: Visualization layer for Prometheus data
• Benefits: Rich dashboards, alerting, plugin ecosystem

Full Open Source Stack

Combine Prometheus + OpenTelemetry + Vector + Grafana for a completely open source monitoring solution.

Security Analysis

Kubehound

• Purpose: Kubernetes attack path analysis
• License: Open source (by Datadog)
• Use Case: Identify security vulnerabilities in cluster configuration

Deployment

Deploy the hybrid monitoring stack:

# Source environment variables
source .env.local

# Deploy to Kubernetes
./scripts/deploy-monitoring.sh -m kubernetes -d "${DD_API_KEY:-$DATADOG_API_KEY}"

# Or deploy with Docker Compose
./scripts/deploy-monitoring.sh -d "${DD_API_KEY:-$DATADOG_API_KEY}"

Next Steps

• Datadog Setup - Configure enterprise monitoring
• Prometheus Configuration (coming soon)
• Vector Pipeline (see repository docs in vector/ folder)
• OpenTelemetry Integration - Add vendor-neutral telemetry