Choose one journey
Checkout, signup, or file upload — not the whole product catalog.
Method
Signal Map
Our signature practice for application analytics in cloud performance monitoring: one service, one customer journey, and the smallest set of signals that tell the truth.
What a Signal Map includes
You sketch the customer path, mark where telemetry already exists, and circle the gaps that matter. We discourage boiling-the-ocean inventories. A good map fits on one poster and survives a coffee spill.
- Golden path steps with owners
- SLIs that customers would recognize
- Dependencies that can steal latency
- Alerts with manners — soft then hard
Where you’ll practice it
The full method lives inside Application Signal Analytics Studio. Shorter sketches appear in Pulse Bench labs and Observatory Circle workshops.
Inventory without vanity
Keep metrics that answer a question; archive the rest with a note.
Narrate the chart
Write a three-sentence story a product manager could read aloud.
Bring a messy dashboard — leave with a map
Browse courses or ask which format fits your team size.