Plugin: System Latency Heat Map

[tomfanara]

🔖 Summary

Utilizing the Backstage graph plugin interface we are proposing a system latency heat map. Open telemetry traces would be used to track message pub sub and service invocation and their latency. This monitoring is very important in distributed architectures as detecting contention in distributed systems is time consuming going through Grafana and Prometheus dashboards. The C4 https://c4model.com/ standard fits perfectly into a heat map overlay that allows engineers to see the progressive nature of latency. See attached diagram.

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✌️ Context

The plugin should take advantage of the existing plugins as dependencies such as the graph plugins that ship with Backstage. The system latency heat map is an overlay on top of the graph showing a gradient latency map. Other plugins such as ones that use and expose Open Telemetry metrics are ideal to obtain timing on endpoint to endpoint synchronous (rest calls) or asynchronous messaging (pub/sub) between components, dependencies, resources and APIs. In addition to phase one as stated, phase 2 will add RAG AI predicted latency using a backpropagation model with known outputs of tolerable latencies. This could be annotated in the component, API, resource catalog-info.yaml files. More to add as we can discuss as a team! Please come and join everyone's input is invited and let's have fun!

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✍️ Are you willing to maintain the plugin?

• [X] I understand the responsibilities as a Plugin Maintainer Governance & will maintain the plugin

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Are you willing to submit PR?

No, but I'm happy to collaborate on a PR with someone else