OBSF: DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Observability Foundation

Course Information

Course Name

OBSF: DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Observability Foundation

Exam code

OBSF

Duration

2 Days

Certification

DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Observability Foundation

Overview

Microservices and Cloud-Native architectures have been goals of many organizations to help increase speed and agility, but as complexity grows, systems become increasingly challenging to observe. When issues occur, these issues are often difficult to triage and identify the root causes.

This course introduces a range of practices for advancing resilience and how to architect end-to-end Observability for Cloud-Native applications. The advantages of building full-stack metrics, events, logs, and distributed tracing are introduced, along with the impact of DevSecOps on Observability and how AIOps enhance Observability capabilities. This course also covers how Network and Security Observability plays a key role in building reliability, and the key aspects of security operations and automated responses are addressed.

The course aims to equip participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in Observability by using real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage situations such as implementing MELT models effectively to fit their organizational context, building distributed tracing, and designing for resiliency.

The course is developed by leveraging key experts in the fields of telemetry, sources of knowledge, engaging with thought leaders in the Observability space, and working with organizations that have successfully adopted modern Observability to extract real-life best practices.

This course positions learners to successfully complete the DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Observability certification exam.

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Audience Profile

The target audience for the DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Observability course includes professionals such as:

• Anyone focused on large-scale service scalability and reliability

• Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches

• Business Managers

• Business Stakeholders

• Change Agents

• Consultants

• DevOps Practitioners

• IT Directors

• IT Managers

• IT Team Leaders

• Product Owners

• Scrum Masters

• Software Engineers

• Site Reliability Engineers

• System Integrators

• Tool Providers

Prerequisites

It is highly recommended that learners attend the SRE Foundation course with an accredited DevOps Institute Education Partner and earn the SRE Foundation certification prior to attending the DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Observability course and exam. An understanding and knowledge of common SRE terminology, concepts, principles and related work experience are recommended.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, the following learning objectives are expected to be achieved:

1. Practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing Observability culture in your organization

2. The underlying principles of Observability and an understanding of why monitoring on its own will not provide the required results in microservices-based containerized environments

3. Understanding the three pillars of Observability

4. Adopting open Telemetry standards to achieve innovation and distributed tracing seamlessly

5. Observability Maturity Model and the measurement of practical observability

6. Implementing full-stack Observability and distributed tracing to enable a DevSecOps culture

7. Curating Observability using AI to move from reactive to proactive and predictive incident management, and how DataOps helps build a clean data lineage of observable data

8. Implementing Network and Container-level Observability, and understanding why security is a first-class citizen in building the Observability culture

9. Understanding Time-Based Topology and its value in Observability for a distributed environment

10. The Data Paradox, and how to address data issues using a systematic approach (DataOps) to build a clean Observability pipeline

11. Feeding forward DevSecOps wisdom into Observability

12. Observability practices for DevSecOps and SRE

Course Outline

Module 1: Exploring Observability

Module 2: Pillars of Observability

Module 3: Open Source Landscape for Observability

Module 4: Service Maps and Topology

Module 5: DataOps Helps Get Observability Right

Module 6: Building Observability with AIOps

Module 7: Security and Networking with Observability

Module 8: Observability Practices for DevOps and SRE 

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