Observability
Accessing the Dynatrace playground and getting started
The Dynatrace playground is a demo environment full of real data: how to access it, what it allows and does n…
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Structured courses, hands-on demos, labs and certification preparation paths to build skills you can apply directly at work.
- Deploy and run containerised platforms
- Monitor production: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs
- Automate infrastructure and pass your certifications
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Hands-on labs and production-like environments: containers, Kubernetes, emulated cloud.
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Start with Linux fundamentals, then automate, containerise and deliver continuously.
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OpenTelemetry, the open standard for observability
A CNCF project backed by every major vendor, OpenTelemetry defines a single way to instrument, collect and export traces, metrics and logs. It has become the common foundation of modern observability.
- 39 lessons
- 10 labs
- ⏱ ≈ 14 h 42
- Intermediate level
What it brings to observability
- One standard for every signalTraces, metrics and logs share the same model, attributes and context: jump from an alert to the trace and then to the log in one click.
- No vendor lock-inInstrument once and send to Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Elastic, Datadog or Dynatrace by changing configuration, not code.
- A telemetry pipeline you controlThe Collector filters, enriches, masks sensitive data and routes telemetry: less noise, lower costs.
- Fast instrumentationAutomatic agents and SDKs for Java, Python, Go, .NET, Node.js… with semantic conventions shared by every service.
Why start with this course
- It is the foundation of modern observability: traces, metrics and logs then share the same vocabulary across all our courses.
- It is the second most active CNCF project after Kubernetes: vendors and clouds adopt it as their ingestion format.
- SREs, DevOps engineers and developers are expected to know it: instrumenting and running a Collector pays off with every tool.
- It underpins our Alloy, Tempo, Jaeger, Bindplane and Datadog courses: you will progress through them faster.
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Observability
Grail buckets in Dynatrace: creation, routing, retention, rights and costs
Complete guide to Grail buckets: purpose, default buckets, creation in Storage management, with the API or Te…
🎓 Dynatrace: From Discovery to Expertise · 9 labs →
Observability
Kibana Maps and Canvas: geographic maps and presentations
Build maps with Kibana Maps (document, aggregation and choropleth layers, ES|QL) and dynamic presentations wi…
🎓 Kibana and Elastic Observability: from discovery to expertise · 9 labs →
Observability
Grafana Alloy: Log Management with Loki
Discover how to configure Grafana Alloy to read log files, journald, or network streams, process this data, a…
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Observability
Dynatrace: From Discovery to Expertise
Want to monitor your applications end-to-end? Discover in this training how to deploy a Dynatrace cluster and administer it to track the performance of yo…
Observability
Grafana: From Discovery to Expertise
Discover how to administer Grafana, configure data sources, and build dynamic, interactive dashboards to visualize your data and metrics.
Containers
Docker: From Discovery to Expertise
Learn to master Docker, from building optimized images to managing and orchestrating containers with Docker Swarm and Docker Compose.
Observability
Alloy: From Discovery to Expertise
Complete training on Grafana Alloy, from discovery to expertise.
Observability
Elasticsearch: from discovery to expertise
Discover everything you need to know about deploying, configuring and administering an Elasticsearch cluster.
Observability
OpenTelemetry: From Discovery to Expertise
Complete free OpenTelemetry course: concepts, OTLP, Collector (connectors, extensions), instrumentation, semantic conventions, distributed traces, metrics…
Observability
Prometheus: From Discovery to Expertise
Learn to set up a powerful monitoring and alerting system with Prometheus, from collecting metrics with exporters to writing complex PromQL queries.
Observability
Logstash: from discovery to expertise
Discover everything you need to know about deploying, configuring, and administering a Logstash cluster. Master the creation of pipelines to process your …
Observability
Datadog: from discovery to expertise
Complete Datadog course: agent and integrations, metrics and unified tagging, logs and cost control, APM and OpenTelemetry, monitors, SLOs and configurati…
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