Course

Observability Foundation («DEVOBS»)

Learn about best practices for building full-stack observability that improve the resilience of services. These include: Building meaningful traces across temporal topologies, impact of DevSecOps and AIOps and building a 360° dashboard.
Duration 2 days
Price 2'500.–
Course documents Official courseware (digital) in English
Price information incl. exam voucher

Course facts

  • Understanding observability and the different maturity levels
  • Building observability in distributed architectures
  • Interpreting temporal topologies
  • Understanding DataOps and applying its principles to build an observability pipeline
  • Extending observability with AIOps
  • Building network and security observability foundations
  • Building a strong DevSecOps and SRE culture through observability

1 Exploring Observability 

  • What is Observability?
  • Why is Observability Important?
  • Why Traditional Monitoring is not Enough? 
  • Observability Maturity Model 

2 Pillars of Observability

  • Telemetry
  • Three Pillars of Observability: Logs, Metrics & Traces 

3 Open Source Landscape

  • What is Observability made of?
  • OpenTelemetry
  • The Rest of the Open Source Ecosystem 

4 Service Maps and Topology

  • Service Maps 
  • Topology 
  • Time Travel Topology 
  • Escalation Graphs 

5 DataOps helps get Observability Right

  • Observability and the Data Paradox 
  • Why Observability Needs DataOps 
  • Data Ownership and Governance 
  • Data Privacy and Observability 

6 Building Observability with AIOps 

  • Enterprises Platform and AIOps 
  • AI / ML Use Cases 

7 Security and Networking

  • Observing Security 
  • Container Security 
  • Network Observability 
  • Visibility and Integration 

8 Observability Practices for DevOps and SRE 

  • Observability Indicators 
  • Dashboards and Visualization 
  • Chaos Engineering 

Interactive training with a mix of expert input, exercises and discussions.

Participants are supported by well-founded and certified training material, which also provides valuable support for everyday project work after the seminar.

  • People who focus on the scalability and reliability of large services
  • Those interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
  • Consultants
  • DevOps practitioners
  • Software engineers
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SRE)
  • System integrators
  • Providers of tools and solutions in the IT sector

Practical experience in the area of DevOps and / or Site Reliability Engineering is an advantage. Otherwise, we recommend attending one or two courses beforehand:

Both the exam and the course literature are only available in English.

You will receive a voucher for the online exam via email from PeopleCert a few days before the course starts. The exam voucher must be redeemed directly with PeopleCert, where you can register for an available exam date. The online exam is proctored by a PeopleCert proctor, which requires a device with a microphone and camera. We recommend taking the exam on a private PC/notebook, as company notebooks are often subject to certain restrictions.

For more information about the exam, please visit the PeopleCert website here.

Format: multiple-choice exam questions, number of questions: 40, pass rate: 65% (26 points out of 40), duration: 60 minutes, open book

«Take2» option:
This option allows you to retake the exam at a lower price if you do not pass. The retake exam takes place online. If required, you can book this option independently in your PeopleCert candidate profile before booking the exam. You have up to 6 months from the date of the first exam to prepare and take the retake exam.

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