diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 85ba20d..efa5072 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ ENV PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
 
 # Copy application source and packaging metadata
 COPY app/ ./app/
+COPY scripts/ ./scripts/
 COPY pyproject.toml README.md ./
 
 # Create an editable install so all sub-packages (app.api, app.core, …) are
diff --git a/app/observability/setup.py b/app/observability/setup.py
index ff5c97a..7bd7660 100644
--- a/app/observability/setup.py
+++ b/app/observability/setup.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from opentelemetry.exporter.prometheus import PrometheusMetricReader
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.fastapi import FastAPIInstrumentor
 from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.view import ExplicitBucketHistogramAggregation, View
 from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
@@ -22,6 +23,58 @@
 _METRICS_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED = False
 _TRACE_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED = False
 
+# Focus histogram precision on sub-second latencies while keeping larger buckets
+# for slow-path visibility.
+_DURATION_BUCKET_BOUNDARIES_SECONDS: tuple[float, ...] = (
+    0.005,
+    0.01,
+    0.025,
+    0.05,
+    0.075,
+    0.1,
+    0.15,
+    0.2,
+    0.3,
+    0.5,
+    0.75,
+    1.0,
+    1.5,
+    2.0,
+    3.0,
+    5.0,
+    7.5,
+    10.0,
+)
+
+
+def _build_metric_views() -> list[View]:
+    """Return metric views with explicit latency buckets for key histograms."""
+    explicit_duration_aggregation = ExplicitBucketHistogramAggregation(
+        boundaries=_DURATION_BUCKET_BOUNDARIES_SECONDS
+    )
+    return [
+        View(
+            instrument_name="commerce_http_request_duration_seconds",
+            aggregation=explicit_duration_aggregation,
+        ),
+        View(
+            instrument_name="commerce_http_response_time_seconds",
+            aggregation=explicit_duration_aggregation,
+        ),
+        View(
+            instrument_name="commerce_http_processing_duration_seconds",
+            aggregation=explicit_duration_aggregation,
+        ),
+        View(
+            instrument_name="commerce_http_queue_wait_duration_seconds",
+            aggregation=explicit_duration_aggregation,
+        ),
+        View(
+            instrument_name="commerce_db_query_duration_seconds",
+            aggregation=explicit_duration_aggregation,
+        ),
+    ]
+
 
 def _build_resource(settings: Settings) -> Resource:
     """Build OpenTelemetry resource attributes from runtime settings."""
@@ -49,7 +102,11 @@ def _configure_metrics_provider(settings: Settings) -> None:
 
     resource = _build_resource(settings)
     metric_reader = PrometheusMetricReader()
-    meter_provider = MeterProvider(resource=resource, metric_readers=[metric_reader])
+    meter_provider = MeterProvider(
+        resource=resource,
+        metric_readers=[metric_reader],
+        views=_build_metric_views(),
+    )
     metrics.set_meter_provider(meter_provider)
     _METRICS_PROVIDER_CONFIGURED = True
 
diff --git a/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p2.json b/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p2.json
index 0d34856..a296c3c 100644
--- a/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p2.json
+++ b/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p2.json
@@ -105,6 +105,20 @@
           "legendFormat": "{{reason}}"
         }
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 8,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - Search Result Count Buckets",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 24, "x": 0, "y": 24},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_search_result_count_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p3.json b/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p3.json
index 63c6c18..b932427 100644
--- a/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p3.json
+++ b/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability-p3.json
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
       "title": "P95 Response Time (ms)",
       "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 8, "x": 0, "y": 0},
       "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
       "targets": [
         {
           "refId": "A",
@@ -28,6 +32,10 @@
       "title": "P95 Processing Time (ms)",
       "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 8, "x": 8, "y": 0},
       "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
       "targets": [
         {
           "refId": "A",
@@ -42,6 +50,10 @@
       "title": "P95 Queue Wait Time (ms)",
       "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 8, "x": 16, "y": 0},
       "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
       "targets": [
         {
           "refId": "A",
@@ -70,6 +82,10 @@
       "title": "DB Query Duration by Operation (ms)",
       "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 8, "x": 8, "y": 8},
       "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
       "targets": [
         {
           "refId": "A",
@@ -138,6 +154,74 @@
           "queryType": "range"
         }
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 9,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - Response Time Buckets (ms)",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 24},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_http_response_time_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 10,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - Processing Time Buckets (ms)",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 24},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_http_processing_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 11,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - Queue Wait Time Buckets (ms)",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 32},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_http_queue_wait_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 12,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - Response Payload Size Buckets (bytes)",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 32},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_http_response_payload_size_bytes_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability.json b/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability.json
index 7a4de44..c32ced8 100644
--- a/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability.json
+++ b/observability/grafana/dashboards/commerce-observability.json
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@
       "title": "P95 Request Latency (ms)",
       "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 8, "x": 8, "y": 8},
       "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
       "targets": [
         {
           "refId": "A",
@@ -84,6 +88,10 @@
       "title": "P95 DB Query Duration (ms)",
       "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 8, "x": 16, "y": 8},
       "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
       "targets": [
         {
           "refId": "A",
@@ -122,6 +130,42 @@
           "filters": []
         }
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 9,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - Request Latency Buckets (ms)",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 24},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 10,
+      "type": "heatmap",
+      "title": "Histogram - DB Query Duration Buckets (ms)",
+      "gridPos": {"h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 24},
+      "datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
+      "fieldConfig": {
+        "defaults": {"unit": "ms"},
+        "overrides": []
+      },
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "refId": "A",
+          "expr": "sum(rate(commerce_db_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le)",
+          "legendFormat": "{{le}}"
+        }
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/observability/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yml b/observability/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yml
index b867d09..503d4e7 100644
--- a/observability/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yml
+++ b/observability/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yml
@@ -32,4 +32,5 @@ datasources:
     url: http://loki:3100
     editable: true
     jsonData:
+      manageAlerts: false
       maxLines: 1000