deployment

Observability: Logging, Metrics, Tracing

Instrument services so incidents become diagnosable stories instead of guesswork.

Cover art for Observability: Logging, Metrics, Tracing

MYR 950 · 5 weeks · part-time

Evening cohort live-online

Outline

Structured logs, metric naming, and trace spans are practised as a single narrative. You will connect a sample service to dashboards and practice reading traces under mentor guidance.

Inclusions

  • Structured logging schema workshop
  • Metric naming that avoids cardinality explosions
  • Trace propagation exercise across two services
  • Dashboards that answer on-call questions
  • Sampling strategies
  • Post-incident note template
  • Cost-aware observability discussion

Outcomes

  1. Instrument a service with logs, metrics, traces
  2. Write a post-incident note from a simulated outage
  3. Propose alert thresholds with rationale

Participant notes

“Trace propagation exercise across two services mirrored our staging topology — rare specificity.”
— Ravi · internal feedback
“Post-incident template from Observability: Logging, Metrics, Tracing is now mandatory on our team.”
— Anonymous · Client in education technology

Straight answers

Vendor-specific?
We use open telemetry concepts; vendor dashboards are shown as examples only.
On-call simulation?
Tabletop only — no pager duty for learners.
What is not provided?
Enterprise APM contracts and vendor professional services are not included.