DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability with Ernest Mueller
Learn about techniques and tools for monitoring from a DevOps mindset.
2h 12m • COURSE

Monitoring is a key practice area of modern operations. In this course, explore techniques and tools for monitoring from a DevOps mindset. Instructors Ernest Mueller and Peco Karayanev spell out what monitoring is, what's unique about the DevOps approach to monitoring, and how to model your system so monitoring makes sense in context. Next, they examine the different types of monitoring instrumentation, including how to implement synthetic monitoring, end user monitoring, system monitoring, and network monitoring. They also cover best practices for architecting systems for observability and share how to overcome common obstacles.

Topics include:
• What is monitoring?
• Understanding the DevOps approach to monitoring
• Types of monitoring instrumentation
• Implementing software metric monitoring
• Implementing application monitoring
• Implementing log monitoring
• Visualizing your monitors
• Handling common monitoring challenges