pal-e-docs

Review: Docs: observability and alerting

review-1675-2026-07-01 Review

review needs-refinement
Project

Verdict: NEEDS_REFINEMENT

Template Completeness

  • [x] Type (Feature)
  • [x] Lineage
  • [x] Repo
  • [x] User Story
  • [x] Context
  • [x] File Targets
  • [x] Feature Flag (none — appropriate for docs-only work)
  • [x] Acceptance Criteria (6 items)
  • [x] Test Expectations
  • [x] Constraints
  • [x] Checklist
  • [x] Related
All required sections for a Feature issue are present.

Traceability

  • [x] story:WS-S2 label — "As superadmin, I want to monitor service health via Grafana so that I catch issues before users do"
  • [x] story note verified — found in project-westside-basketball user-stories section (Superadmin list)
  • [x] arch:docs label — present on board item
  • [ ] arch note MISSING — [SCOPE] Create architecture note arch-docs for component docs. No arch-docs note exists in pal-e-docs. This affects all 6 sibling docs tickets (#1671-#1676) sharing the same label.
  • [x] Forgejo issue — ldraney/westside-basketball#140, open

File Targets

  • [x] docs/observability.md — to be created. The docs/ directory exists with 7 existing docs (consolidation.md, dashboard.md, keycloak.md, roles.md, routes.md, spike-47-actionmailer-gmail-api.md, stripe-subscription-architecture.md). No existing observability content found in codebase. Valid target.

Repo Placement

OK — issue filed on ldraney/westside-basketball, all work is in the same repo. Single file creation, no cross-repo concerns.

Dependencies

  • Board item #184 (done): "Observability — Grafana dashboard + structured logging" (5 points) — prior observability work that may have created infrastructure this doc should reference.
  • Sibling docs items in backlog (#1671 CI/CD, #1672 deployment, #1673 local dev, #1674 security, #1676 testing) — all share arch:docs label. Parallel work, none blocking.
  • No blocking dependencies detected.

Acceptance Criteria

6 criteria, all assessable by an agent:
  • AC-1: File existence — trivially verifiable
  • AC-2 through AC-5: Content coverage (logging, monitoring, alerting, health diagnostics) — verifiable via section presence and keyword grep
  • AC-6: Grafana references — verifiable via grep for "Grafana"
Criteria are slightly vague (e.g., "Covers logging" without specifying exact requirements) but acceptable for documentation tickets where the constraint section provides structural guidance via the landscaping-assistant model.

Blast Radius

Minimal. Documentation-only change — no code, no tests, no deployments affected. The docs/ directory is not consumed by any build process.

Decomposition Assessment

  • 1 file target in 1 repo
  • 6 acceptance criteria (slightly over 5 threshold, but all relate to content sections within a single document)
  • Estimated agent time: well under 5 minutes
  • No decomposition needed.

Constraint Verification

  • [x] landscaping-assistant docs/observability-roadmap.md exists at /home/ldraney/landscaping-assistant/docs/observability-roadmap.md — valid structural model
  • [x] sop-incident-response exists in pal-e-docs (pal-e-platform project, status: active) — valid reference target

Recommendation

  • [SCOPE] Create architecture note arch-docs for the docs component. This note should define what the docs architecture covers (in-repo documentation standards, structure, cross-reference conventions). Affects this ticket and 5 siblings (#1671-#1676).