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These diagrams are animated, and you can click on them or walk through them with the keyboard. Each one ends with a “Try this” section, followed by its bridges to business, organization, people and business lines.

Trace explorerThree OpenTelemetry traces to walk: nominal RAG agent, silent failure, slow payment.

Clickable architectureAn example self-hostable stack, component by component, with signal paths and owners.

Animated Collector pipelineReceivers, processors and exporters of the OpenTelemetry Collector in motion.

Animated training stepThe phases of a distributed training step and what they reveal about the cluster.

Executive dashboardFive indicators for an executive committee, with a drill-down to the technical measures that explain them.

Observability layersSeven layers, from the shop-floor sensor to the AI model, and two cross-cutting bands, with the signals, indicators and tools specific to each.

Explorable HPC AI clusterScheduler, nodes of 8 H100 GPUs, InfiniBand, storage: what to observe and what threatens each element, with a training step to play.

AI in cross-section, in 3DA generative AI application in exploded view: five layers to rotate, what can go wrong (OWASP) and what to observe, with a request crossing them.

BridgesWhat this page changes beyond the technical team.

BusinessValue, cost, risk: The trace explorer shows that a silent RAG failure looks like a token saving on a cost dashboard, and the Collector pipeline shows how much noise a disabled filter lets into storage: two arguments to fund quality evaluation and Collector governance.
OrganizationWho decides, who owns: The "who owns what" layer of the clickable architecture supports an ownership review: every component, and every shared rule (masking, cardinality, alerts), must come out of it with a name.
PeopleTeams, on-call, skills: The animated training step teaches people to read the breakdown of a step rather than GPU utilization, and the trace explorer to look for the span that carries the anomaly: two habits to build before the first on-call shift.
Business linesProduct, finance, risk, customer: The executive dashboard links five indicators expressed in euros, customers or risk to the technical measures that explain them; the slow payment trace shows sales where carts get abandoned.

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