Observability Foundation℠

Microservices and cloud-native architectures have been goals for many organisations to increase speed and agility. However, as complexity grows, systems become increasingly challenging to develop with observability best practices.

Observability Foundation introduces a range of best practices for building full-stack observability, advancing resilience in a distributed ecosystem. These best practices include meaningful traces across temporal topologies, the impact of DevSecOps and AIOps on observability, and a 360-degree view of mature observability practices.

With Observability Foundation, you will learn about:

• Achieving an observability culture in your organisation
• Grasping the basic principles of observability, including the Three Pillars, and why monitoring alone is not enough
• Adopting OpenTelemetry standards to enhance innovation and distributed tracing
• Utilising full-stack observability and distributed tracing to enable a DevSecOps culture
• Understanding levels of organisational observability maturity to build effective strategies
• Implementing network, container level observability

Benefits for Organisations

• Leverage observability to improve business value, stability, and reliability of services
• Refine product development, deployment, and operations lifecycle
• Increase balance between technical investment in reliability and customer experience
• Establish a homogenous culture with greater synchronization between product, development, and operational teams, improving staff morale

Benefits for Individuals

• Understanding of practical implementation of Observability, traces, spans, and their correct interpretations
• Design observability in services for higher security and reliability
• Build fault-tolerant distributed ecosystems tested for risks of disaster
• Integrate AIOps intelligence in operations using the observability pipeline
• Gain awareness of other roles to contribute towards a better workplace culture

Exam Information

• Level: Foundation
• Languages: English
• Exam Duration: 60 mins
• MCQs: 40
• Pass Marks: 65%
• Open Book: Yes
• Re-Certification: Yes