Production Deployment Strategies for AI Agents at Scale

Deploy AI agents to production with Kubernetes orchestration, OpenTelemetry observability, and cost management. Complete guide covering infrastructure patterns, distributed tracing, monitoring strategies, and enterprise deployment on Azure, AWS, and GCP.

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Azure Monitor with OpenTelemetry Part 7: Production Monitoring and Observability Patterns

Master production observability with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor. Learn intelligent sampling strategies, actionable alerting patterns, performance optimization, cost management, operational dashboards, and incident response integration for enterprise-scale applications.

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Azure Monitor with OpenTelemetry Part 6: Custom Metrics and Advanced Telemetry

Implement custom business metrics with OpenTelemetry counters, histograms, and gauges in .NET, Node.js, and Python. Learn instrument selection, cardinality optimization, Azure Monitor querying with KQL, and building actionable dashboards for production observability.

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Azure Monitor with OpenTelemetry Part 4: Python Applications with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor

Instrument Python Flask and FastAPI applications with Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for comprehensive observability. Learn automatic instrumentation, custom spans with tracers, custom metrics, logging integration, database tracking, and production configuration patterns.

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Azure Monitor with OpenTelemetry Part 2: Setting Up OpenTelemetry in .NET Applications

.NET developers can instrument ASP.NET Core applications with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor in minutes. Learn automatic instrumentation, custom spans with Activity and ActivitySource, custom metrics implementation, and production configuration patterns for comprehensive observability.

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Azure Monitor with OpenTelemetry Part 1: Understanding OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor Integration

Understand the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry and why Azure Monitor adopted this vendor-neutral observability framework. Learn about the three pillars of observability, OpenTelemetry architecture, Azure Monitor Distro, and key differences from legacy Application Insights SDKs.

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OpenTelemetry for Node.js with Azure Monitor: Complete Implementation Guide

Learn how to implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Node.js applications with Azure Monitor. Complete guide covering Express and Fastify frameworks, automatic instrumentation, custom spans, custom metrics, production configuration, and migration from legacy Application Insights SDK.

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Vector Databases Part 7: Production Deployment Patterns and Operations

Moving vector databases from development to production requires addressing challenges that prototype implementations ignore including high availability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and operational monitoring. Production

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Monitoring, Observability, and Operational Excellence: Building Systems That Tell Their Own Story

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Designing a Scalable URL Shortener on Microsoft Azure

Part 7 explores building comprehensive observability that transforms complex systems from black boxes into transparent, self-diagnosing platforms. We dive deep into Azure Monitor, intelligent alerting systems, distributed tracing, and operational excellence practices that enable proactive system management at scale.

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