Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Compositions: Extending Grafana OSS and SLO Frameworks via Crossplane for Automated Operational Metrics

Author(s)	Anupam Ojha
Country	United States
Abstract	The decoupling of infrastructure provisioning from observability configuration creates a “Visibility Gap” where Service Level Objectives (SLOs) fail to reflect the real-time state of the underlying cloud resources. In this paper, I present an architectural framework that utilizes Crossplane Compositions to treat observability—specifically Grafana OSS dashboards and SLO alerting—as Managed Resources (MR). By integrating the observability lifecycle into the Kubernetes Control Plane, I enable the automated generation of operational metrics at the moment of infrastructure birth. I provide a formal model for “Metric Drift” and demonstrate, through a production-scale simulation, how this pull-based IaC approach eliminates manual monitoring debt and ensures 100% metric coverage for ephemeral cloud shards.
Field	Engineering
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2024
Published On	2024-11-06
DOI	https://doi.org/10.70528/IJLRP.v5.i11.2171
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hb27px

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