# Epic 6: Observability & Production Readiness

## Overview
Enhance observability with full OpenTelemetry integration, add comprehensive error reporting (Sentry), create Grafana dashboards, improve logging with request correlation, add rate limiting and security hardening, and optimize performance.

## Stories

### 6.1 Enhanced Observability
- [Story: 6.1 - Enhanced Observability](./6.1-enhanced-observability.md)
- **Goal:** Enhance observability with full OpenTelemetry integration, comprehensive Prometheus metrics, and improved logging.
- **Deliverables:** Complete OpenTelemetry integration, expanded metrics, enhanced logging

### 6.2 Error Reporting (Sentry)
- [Story: 6.2 - Error Reporting](./6.2-error-reporting.md)
- **Goal:** Add comprehensive error reporting with Sentry integration.
- **Deliverables:** Sentry integration, error context enhancement

### 6.3 Grafana Dashboards
- [Story: 6.3 - Grafana Dashboards](./6.3-grafana-dashboards.md)
- **Goal:** Create comprehensive Grafana dashboards for monitoring.
- **Deliverables:** Grafana dashboard JSON files, documentation

### 6.4 Rate Limiting
- [Story: 6.4 - Rate Limiting](./6.4-rate-limiting.md)
- **Goal:** Implement rate limiting to prevent API abuse.
- **Deliverables:** Rate limiting middleware, configuration

### 6.5 Security Hardening
- [Story: 6.5 - Security Hardening](./6.5-security-hardening.md)
- **Goal:** Add comprehensive security hardening.
- **Deliverables:** Security headers, input validation, request limits

### 6.6 Performance Optimization
- [Story: 6.6 - Performance Optimization](./6.6-performance-optimization.md)
- **Goal:** Optimize platform performance.
- **Deliverables:** Connection pooling, query optimization, compression, caching

## Deliverables Checklist
- [ ] Full OpenTelemetry integration
- [ ] Sentry error reporting
- [ ] Enhanced logging with correlation
- [ ] Comprehensive Prometheus metrics
- [ ] Grafana dashboards
- [ ] Rate limiting
- [ ] Security hardening
- [ ] Performance optimizations

## Acceptance Criteria
- Traces are exported and visible in Jaeger
- Errors are reported to Sentry with context
- Logs include request IDs and trace IDs
- Metrics are exposed and scraped by Prometheus
- Rate limiting prevents abuse
- Security headers are present
- Performance meets SLA (< 100ms p95 for auth endpoints)
