OpenTelemetry Course - Understand Software Performance

Overview

Dive into a comprehensive course on OpenTelemetry and learn how to achieve full stack observability for your software projects. Explore the fundamentals of microservices, observability, and the M.E.L.T (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces) approach. Gain hands-on experience setting up tracing, understanding context and propagation, and implementing distributed tracing. Discover the importance of metrics and their role in software performance analysis. Explore real-world use cases for OpenTelemetry and learn how to integrate with analysis tools like New Relic. By the end of this 1-2 hour course, developed by Ania Kubów, you'll have a solid foundation in using OpenTelemetry to monitor and optimize your software's performance and behavior.

Syllabus

) What is OpenTelemetry.
) Course Outline.
) Let’s go!.
) What are Microservices?.
) What is Observability?.
) M.E.L.T.
) History.
) Setting up our Project.
) What is Tracing?.
) Context and Propagation.
) Setting up our Tracing.
) What are Metrics?.
) Use cases for OpenTelemetry.
) Setting up Distributed Tracing.
) Using other Analysis Tools - New Relic.
) Where to go next.