Follow a production request from the public edge to a workload and back through the observability plane.
A Kubernetes request is not 'sent to a pod'. It crosses multiple policy, routing and service-discovery boundaries. This diagram makes those boundaries visible so teams can reason about failure domains and telemetry.
Every hop creates a separate failure domain.
Service discovery and policy are distinct from workload health.
Telemetry should cover the request path, not only the pod.
Browser / API
Public edge
TLS + routing
Stable virtual IP
Replicas
Metrics • logs • traces
The diagram is intentionally architectural rather than vendor-specific. Use it as a mental model, then map the components to the actual environment.
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