Instrumentation as Code is the practice of defining, versioning, standardizing, testing, and deploying how applications and infrastructure generate telemetry.
This is where observability starts.
It can include:
Example: Instead of every development team independently deciding:
an organization can provide standardized, version-controlled instrumentation patterns that applications consume through their deployment pipelines.
The result is not just “more telemetry.”
It is consistent and meaningful telemetry.
A payment-service running in Kubernetes, EC2, or another platform should follow the same organizational conventions for service name, environment, team, version, ownership, and other important metadata.