EXPEDITION 01 · 2026
Platform Engineering
Signal Atlas
A unified observability workspace that turns scattered service signals into a navigable incident map.
−41%time to orient
3signals unified
2026year explored
The question
How might an on-call engineer understand a multi-service incident before context switching erodes the response window?
The route
I modeled logs, metrics, and traces around a shared incident timeline and designed progressive detail instead of another dense dashboard.
The outcome
The mock pilot reduced the median path from alert to suspected service and gave responders one shared source of context.
Field note
Observability becomes useful when it shortens a decision, not when it maximizes the number of charts.
Instruments
- React
- TypeScript
- OpenTelemetry
- ClickHouse