# OPS 4  How do you design your workload so that you can understand its state?
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 Design your workload so that it provides the information necessary across all components (for example, metrics, logs, and traces) for you to understand its internal state. This enables you to provide effective responses when appropriate. 

**Topics**
+ [OPS04-BP01 Implement application telemetry](ops_telemetry_application_telemetry.md)
+ [OPS04-BP02 Implement and configure workload telemetry](ops_telemetry_workload_telemetry.md)
+ [OPS04-BP03 Implement user activity telemetry](ops_telemetry_customer_telemetry.md)
+ [OPS04-BP04 Implement dependency telemetry](ops_telemetry_dependency_telemetry.md)
+ [OPS04-BP05 Implement transaction traceability](ops_telemetry_dist_trace.md)