Monitoring & Observability

What you'll be able to do

• Design effective monitoring strategies
• Build comprehensive dashboards
• Configure intelligent alerting
• Implement SLOs and error budgets
• Set up distributed tracing

Modules

1. 01

   Logging Foundations

   Structured logging, log collection, and analysis patterns

   11 lessons
   3 h

2. 02

   Prometheus Metrics

   Metrics collection, exporters, recording rules with Prometheus

   6 lessons
   3 h

3. 03

   Grafana Dashboards & Visualization

   Building effective dashboards, alerting, and data visualization

   6 lessons
   3 h

4. 04

   Alerting & Incident Response

   Alert management, escalation, SLOs, and incident response workflows

   6 lessons
   3 h

5. 05

   Distributed Tracing & APM

   OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, APM tools, and performance monitoring

   6 lessons
   3 h

6. 06

   Observability Strategy

   Mindset, signal selection, and instrumentation planning

   9 lessons
   3 h

7. 07

   Metrics Engineering

   Model metrics, optimize queries, and improve alert quality

   9 lessons
   4 h

8. 08

   Logging at Scale

   Pipeline design, parsing, retention, and cost control

   9 lessons
   4 h

9. 09

   Observability Field Guide

   Failure patterns, investigations, and evidence

   9 lessons
   3 h

10. 10

    Observability Platform

    Operate the platform that stores and serves signals

    9 lessons
    4 h

11. 11

    SLO Operations

    Define SLOs, manage error budgets, and align teams

    9 lessons
    4 h

12. 12

    Incident Analytics

    Measure detection, response, and recovery to improve reliability

    15 lessons
    2 h