Observability of Services – Concepts and Hands-On Workshop

• 2 days

Target Audience

• Software engineers
• DevOps
• QA/Tester

Outline

• Introduction to Observability

  • Definition of Observability
  • Observability vs. Monitoring: Key Differences
  • The Three Pillars of Observability
  • Benefits of observability in microservices architecture

• Application Metrics

  • What are metrics ?
  • Types of metrics => counters, gauges, histograms, summaries
  • Best practices in application metrics collection
  • Common metrics: request rate, latency, error rate, saturation
  • Tools
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • OpenTelemetry

• Distributed Tracing

  • Tracing basics: spans, traces, context propagation
  • Use cases: latency bottlenecks, root cause analysis
  • Tools
    • Jaeger
    • Zipkin
    • OpenTelemetry Collector

• Centralized Logging

  • Importance of structured logs
  • Log levels and context enrichment
  • Centralized log aggregation
  • Tools
    • Fluent Bit / Fluentd
    • Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack)
    • Loki, Grafana
    • OpenTelemetry