Establish current state and measurement baseline
- Analyze frontend instrumentation points
- Map backend trace injection locations
- Document infrastructure gaps
- Measure 14-second breakdown
Add immediate visibility with manual timing
- Performance API marks
- Console timing output
- Backend Stopwatch logging
- Basic timing dashboard
Implement distributed tracing infrastructure
- Design trace schema
- Deploy OTel Collector
- Frontend WebTracerProvider
- Backend ActivitySource
- Julia telemetry integration
Optimize React rendering and reduce client-side time
- Profile soft refresh behavior
- Apply React.memo optimizations
- Implement surgical state updates
- Add Web Vitals monitoring
Create operational dashboards
- Azure Monitor dashboard
- Grafana Tempo integration
- User-facing performance view
- SLA alerting rules
Build the observability guide
- Interactive architecture diagram
- Step-by-step implementation guide
- Tooling comparison matrix
- Troubleshooting guides