Monitoring & Observability are must have skills for Developers and DevOps professionals. This course provides a comprehensive overview of these concepts and teaches you the hands-on skills to employ monitoring, observability, and logging for your application.
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Employing monitoring and observability solutions are crucial skills for Software Developers and DevOps professionals to ensure continuous uptime and delivery for their applications. Monitoring is the practice of watching and understanding the state of systems using metrics and logs. **
Observability is a modern development practice that allows software developers to actively troubleshoot applications faster than ever. Observability and Monitoring work together, with observability detecting and investigating problems, and monitoring capturing the metrics and alerting you when an issue occurs.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of monitoring and observability, including why it’s essential for application development, popular tools for application monitoring, troubleshooting and logging, and leveraging insights to make the application more reliable.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of monitoring, Golden signals, the difference between monitoring and evaluation, and terminology. You’ll also work with monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus and Grafana and data visualization tools like Kibana and Splunk. You’ll understand the 3 Pillars of Observability and work with OpenTelemetry and implement logging with Mezmo. **
This course includes multiple hands-on labs throughout the course for you to demonstrate your monitoring and observability skills and interact with popular tools used by professionals.
In the final project, you’ll apply monitoring and observability skills to a real-world application scenario and demonstrate your working knowledge and gain the confidence to perform these tasks as if in a job setting.
This course is part of the DevOps and Software Engineering Professional Certificate.
What you'll learn
- Demonstrate working knowledge of monitoring tools Prometheus and Grafana, and observability tool Open Telemetry.
- Perform troubleshooting using Tracing. and explain the value Trace provides.
- Demonstrate your knowledge of monitoring techniques and explain how they would be used as metrics.
- Develop hands-on experience with variety of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk and Open Telemetry, Mezmo (LogDNA).
Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction to Monitoring for Applications
What is Monitoring
Types of Monitoring
Introduction to Observability
Introduction to Evaluation
Golden Signals for Monitoring
Difference Between Monitoring and Evaluation
Components of Monitoring Systems
Importance of Monitoring systems
Module 2: Monitoring Systems and Techniques
Introduction to Synthetic monitoring
Tools of Synthetic Monitoring
Application Monitoring
Application Monitoring in Action
Hands-on Lab: Monitoring in Action (Prometheus, Grafana)
Using Monitors visualization (Kibana, Splunk)
User Monitors: Alerting
Module 3: Observability and Concepts
What Do You Mean by Observability
3 Pillars of Observability: Tracing, Telemetry, Logging
Introduction to Sampling
Introduction to Telemetry
Telemetry Platforms
Tracing Tools
Hands-on Lab: Automated Instrumentation with Open Telemetry
Tracing for Container-based Applications
Hands-on Lab: Kubernetes Configuration for Tracing
Module 4: Logging
Introduction to Logging
Logging Tools
Distributed Logging – Correlation ID’s
Implementing Logging (Formatting, Parsing of Logs)
Log Storage (Configurations, Log Retention Policy)
Mezmo Overview
Demo: Mezmo in Action
Hands-on Lab: Working with Mezmo (LogDNA)
Module 5: Final Project
