Observability Foundation (OBSF)

Microservices and Cloud-Native architectures have been goals of many organizations to help increase speed and agility, but as complexity grows, systems become increasingly challenging to observe. W...

Course Introduction

Module 1: Exploring Observability


- What is Observability?
- MELT
- Importance of Observability
- Why Traditional Monitoring is not Enough
- Observability Maturity Model
- Challenges with Observability
Module 2: Pillars of Observability


- Defining telemetry
- The Three Pillars of Observability - Logs, metrics, and traces
- Distributed Traces
- Parts of a Trace
- Tracing: Error Diagnosis
Module 3: Open Source Landscape for Observability


- What is Observability made of?
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenTelemetry Libraries
- OpenTelemetry Agents & Collection
- The Rest of the Open Source Ecosystem
Module 4: Service Maps and Topology


- Service maps
- Topology
- Time Travel Topology
- Escalation Graphs
- The 4 Ts
Module 5: DataOps Helps Get Observability Right


- Observability and the Data Paradox
- Why Observability need DataOps
- Data Ownership and Governance
- Data Privacy & Observability
- Data Confidentiality, Integrity & Availability
- Maintaining CIA Triad
Module 6: Building Observability with AIOps


- What is AIOps
- AIOps Platforms
- Enterprise Platform for AIOps
- AI/ML Use Cases
- Auto-Instrumenting Optimization
- Feedforward CI/CD into AIOPs
- Feedback...

At the end of the course, the following learning objectives are expected to be achieved:


- Practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing Observability culture in your organization
- The underlying principles of Observability and an understanding why monitoring on its own will not provide the required results in microservices based containerized environments
- Understanding the three pillars of Observability
- Adopting open Telemetry standards helps achieve innovation and dis...

The target audience for the Observability Foundation course are professionals including:


- Anyone focused on large-scale service scalability and reliability
- Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
- Business Managers
- Business Stakeholders
- Change Agents
- Consultants
- DevOps Practitioners
- IT Directors
- IT Managers
- IT Team Leaders
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- Software Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- System Integrators
- Tool Pr...