OpenTelemetry: Foundations for Cloud-Native Observability

Modern software systems are increasingly complex, making it challenging to understand their behavior and performance. Observability, powered by tools like OpenTelemetry, provides the insights needed to navigate this complexity. By the end of this course, you will be able to design and implement basic OpenTelemetry solutions to collect, process, and export telemetry data, gaining crucial insights into your applications' performance and behavior. What you'll learn: * Understand the core concepts of distributed tracing, metrics, and logging within the OpenTelemetry framework * Learn to instrument applications using OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs to generate rich telemetry data * Configure and deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector to process, filter, and export data using OTLP * Design end-to-end telemetry pipelines, ensuring proper context propagation across services * Apply OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for consistent and meaningful data representation * Practice interpreting collected telemetry data to identify performance bottlenecks and system issues This course begins with foundational observability principles, then guides you through practical instrumentation techniques and the configuration of the OpenTelemetry Collector, concluding with building complete telemetry pipelines. This course is designed for beginners in software development, operations, or site reliability engineering who want to understand and implement OpenTelemetry. No prior experience with observability tools or OpenTelemetry is required. Start building robust observability into your applications today.