Remote observability on linux devices

[janhalen]

👤 User story

As the administrator i need to be able to Monitor and detect errors and/or misconfigurations in remote devices early, To be able to meet the expectations, that devices have a high uptime and availability and that the devices are consistently compliant with the given security policies.

📋 Tasks and features

• research and prototype a standardized graphical dashboarding tool
  - [ ] Take a look at OpenObserve
• select a standards based metrics/log collection method - @janhalen: OTEL is the obvious choice from my POV
• add a notification system
• Define a minimal set of metrics for devices

[janhalen]

pre-development branch experiments are done in a codespace here-> https://glorious-pancake-wgpxq79g54pcxrr.github.dev/

Findings and results of pre-dev prototype will be added to a dev-branch here as soon as all pending PRs are merged in.

[janhalen]

Status Q1 2026:

From a 12/15 factor design principle and utilizing a Cloud Native approach @turegjorup and I agreed that integration with standardized Observabilty components like OTEL would be the right way forward.

This will shift much of the work needed from core logging and observability code, to standardised integration configurations.