Observability Overview

Bloodraven exposes operational state through Kubernetes status, Events, structured logs, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana dashboards.

Signals by audience

Audience	Primary signals
On-call	Alerts, runbooks, MysqlFailoverGroup conditions, Events
Platform	Operator health, reconcile errors, RBAC errors, DNS updates
Database owner	Replication lag, backup freshness, verification freshness, PITR archive lag
App team	Active-site DNS, connection errors, write success rate, pool reconnect behavior

Setup path

1. Enable the metrics Service in the Helm chart.
2. Configure Prometheus scraping with a ServiceMonitor or raw scrape config.
3. Install Grafana dashboards.
4. Install the alert package used by your environment.
5. Link each alert to Runbooks.
6. Use the Observability Change Checklist for PRs or releases that change observability signals.

Pages

• Monitoring Reference
• Prometheus Setup
• Grafana Dashboards
• Alert To Runbook Map
• Observability Change Checklist
• Log Schema