Observability & Monitoring
Build full observability into production systems with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry — metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLOs.
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Course Content
Foundations
Core concepts and groundwork
The Three Pillars — Metrics, Logs, Traces
Reading
Monitoring vs Observability
Reading
Instrumentation Basics
Reading
Foundations Practice — Instrument a Service
Exercise
Prometheus Architecture and Scraping
Reading
PromQL — Querying Metrics
Reading
Applied Practice
Hands-on, real-world scenarios
Exporters and Custom Metrics
Reading
Metrics Practice — Custom App Metrics
Exercise
Grafana Data Sources and Panels
Reading
Building Effective Dashboards
Reading
Variables, Annotations and Sharing
Reading
Dashboard Practice — Service Health Board
Exercise
Advanced Topics
Deeper, more complex material
Mastery & Capstone
Projects and final review
Correlating Logs, Metrics and Traces
Reading
Tracing Practice — Trace a Request End-to-End
Exercise
Alerting and On-Call Routing
Reading
SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
Reading
Reducing Alert Noise and Fatigue
Reading
Capstone — Monitor CricketPulse Through a Match-Day Spike
Project
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Topic Overview
What you'll learn
- Core concepts and fundamentals of Observability & Monitoring
- Industry best practices and design patterns
- Hands-on exercises with real-world scenarios
- Performance optimization and advanced techniques
- Building production-ready applications