Observability Foundations
Your Entry Point to Modern Observability
Master the three pillars of observability (metrics, logs, traces) with hands-on OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Build production-ready dashboards and understand how signals correlate.
What You'll Achieve
Instrument Applications
Query All Three Signals
Build Production Dashboards
Understand Signal Correlation
Who This Track Is For
Designed for professionals ready to level up their observability expertise
Backend developers new to observability
DevOps engineers expanding monitoring skills
SREs looking to standardize on OpenTelemetry
Platform teams building internal tooling
Prerequisites
What You'll Learn
A structured progression through key topics, with hands-on labs at every step
- Three pillars of observability
- OpenTelemetry architecture and concepts
- Auto-instrumentation setup
- Semantic conventions
- Metrics with Prometheus
- PromQL fundamentals
- Cardinality management
- Logs with Loki
- LogQL fundamentals
- Traces with Tempo
- TraceQL fundamentals
- Signal correlation
- Building unified dashboards
What You'll Be Able To Do
Practical skills you can apply immediately in your work
Instrument Applications
Auto-instrument applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, and Java
Query All Three Signals
Write PromQL for metrics, LogQL for logs, and TraceQL for traces
Build Production Dashboards
Create unified Grafana dashboards with RED metrics and drill-down capabilities
Understand Signal Correlation
Navigate from metrics to traces to logs using exemplars and trace context
Team Training
Customized to your team's needs
Explore Other Tracks
Continue your observability journey with complementary training
Grafana Stack Deep Dive
Master the Complete LGTM Stack
Go beyond basics with advanced PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL. Learn production patterns for recording rules, alerting, cost optimization, and scaling the Grafana stack.
SLOs & Incident Response
From SLIs to Postmortems
Define meaningful SLOs, implement error budgets, and build systematic incident response workflows. Includes hands-on simulated incidents with real troubleshooting.
Kubernetes Observability
Full-Stack K8s Monitoring
Deploy complete observability for Kubernetes clusters. From kube-state-metrics to custom ServiceMonitors, build production-ready monitoring for your K8s infrastructure.