Observability Lite for Freshly Launched MVPs

You do not need a full enterprise observability stack on day one. You do need to know when the app is broken.

Add error tracking, uptime checks, and a basic log trail for critical API routes.

Watch signup and checkout funnels. Product analytics catches silent UX failures monitoring misses.

Define who gets alerted and what 'acknowledge' means. Alerts without owners are noise.

Lite observability protects reputation while you learn which deeper tooling is worth the cost.