Hospital System Observability & Patient Journey Monitoring

Goals:

• Build complete observability for hospital systems to monitor patient journeys across all critical applications.
• Detect, correlate, and resolve incidents quickly to minimize impact on patient care.
• Track performance metrics across admission, triage, appointments, and laboratory systems.

Student Roles:

• DevOps engineers, SRE specialists
• Infrastructure engineers, monitoring specialists

Expected Outcomes:

• A complete observability platform with distributed tracing, centralized logging, real-time dashboards, automated alerting, and operational runbooks for hospital incident management.

Key Features:

• Distributed tracing for patient journey tracking across services
• Centralized log aggregation and correlation
• Real-time dashboards (wait times, latency, errors, system saturation)
• SLO/SLA definition with intelligent alerting and escalation
• Operational runbooks for common incidents (outages, overload, unavailability)
• Performance monitoring for critical hospital workflows

Technologies:

• Linux, Docker, Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK
• Alerting systems, SRE practices