Dev Tools · 1h ago
Manage Dashboards and Alerts as Code with Terraform
Observability as Code treats dashboards, alerts, and SLOs as version-controlled resources alongside service code. Using Terraform providers for Datadog, Grafana, and New Relic, teams enforce ownership, auto-update dashboards, and detect drift. This approach prevents click-ops debt and ensures changes go through PR review.
Meridian48 take
The article makes a solid case for infrastructure-as-code principles applied to monitoring, but the real challenge is organizational buy-in to maintain discipline.
Read the full reporting
Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform →
DEV Community
observability-as-codeterraform