OpenTelemetry
Course Index
28 Lessons · 3 Sections
Master OpenTelemetry — the CNCF's most active project and universal standard for instrumentation across traces, metrics & logs. Covers OTel Collector, auto-instrumentation, Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, AWS X-Ray & OTel Profiles 2026. Includes 4 builds: instrument a microservice, K8s operator, end-to-end tracing & correlate in Grafana.
28Lessons
3Sections
4Projects
FreeAccess
Section 1OTel FundamentalsLessons 1–10
Lesson 1
What is OpenTelemetry? The CNCF Observability Standard
Lesson 2
OTel Architecture: SDKs, Collector & Exporters
Lesson 3
Traces: Spans, Context & Propagation
Lesson 4
Metrics: Instruments, Views & Exemplars
Lesson 5
Logs: OTel Log Bridge & Correlation
Lesson 6
OTel Collector: Receivers, Processors & Exporters
Lesson 7
Auto-Instrumentation: Java, Python & Node.js
Lesson 8
Manual Instrumentation: Custom Spans & Attributes
Lesson 9
Context Propagation: W3C TraceContext & Baggage
Lesson 10
Sampling Strategies: Head & Tail Sampling
Section 2Backends, Kubernetes & AdvancedLessons 11–22
Lesson 11
Exporting to Jaeger & Zipkin
Lesson 12
Exporting to Grafana Tempo
Lesson 13
Exporting to Datadog, New Relic & Honeycomb
Lesson 14
Exporting to AWS X-Ray & CloudWatch
Lesson 15
OTel Kubernetes Operator
Lesson 16
OTel Collector Deployment Patterns
Lesson 17
Correlating Logs, Metrics & Traces
Lesson 18
OTel for Microservices
Lesson 19
OTel for Serverless: Lambda & Cloud Functions
Lesson 20
OpenTelemetry & Service Mesh: Istio & Linkerd
Lesson 21
OTel Profiles: The 4th Signal 2026
Lesson 22
OpenTelemetry in 2026: OTLP Maturity & Adoption
Section 3Anti-Patterns, Best Practices & ProjectsLessons 23–28
Lesson 23
OTel Anti-Patterns & Cardinality Management
Lesson 24
OTel Best Practices & Instrumentation Standards
Lesson 25
Instrument a Microservice with OTel
Lesson 26
Deploy OTel Collector with Kubernetes Operator
Lesson 27
Build End-to-End Tracing Across 3 Services
Lesson 28
Correlate Logs, Metrics & Traces in Grafana