DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability

Monitoring is a key practice area of modern operations. Learn the techniques and tools for monitoring from a DevOps mindset.

Introduction

• Measure, detect, and respond
• What you need to know

1. Introduction to Monitoring and Observability

• Overview of monitoring and observability
• Importance of observability in building applications
• Pillars of observability
• Observability architecture

2. Metrics and Monitoring

• Metric types
• Analyzing metrics
• Choosing the right metric
• Metrics in action using Mimir and Grafana Cloud

3. Tracing and Distributed Systems

• Concepts of tracing and distributed systems
• Tracing in action using Tempo and Grafana Cloud

4. Logging and Log Management

• Concepts of logging and log management
• Best practices for logging
• Log collection and application
• Log monitoring in action using Loki and Grafana Cloud

5. Events

• Collecting system events
• Event analysis and correlation

6. Monitoring Techniques

• Application performance monitoring
• Synthetics monitoring
• Infrastructure monitoring
• Product monitoring
• Other monitoring techniques

7. Utilizing Observability Signals

• Dashboards and visualization
• Monitoring and alerting
• SLIs, SLOs, SLAs
• Incident management
• Machine learning and observability

Conclusion

• Choosing your observability stack
• Measuring the success of your observability
• Implementing observability in your organization