Observability Stack Primer
Metrics, logs, traces—when to reach for which, and how to avoid drowning teammates in dashboards.
You build a slim golden signals board, practice trace exemplars, and write SLO drafts that survive a skeptical engineering manager. Noise reduction is a first-class topic.
What the syllabus includes
- RED/USE metrics framing with sample apps
- Structured logging field naming workshop
- Trace sampling pitfalls illustrated
- SLO draft worksheet with error budget math
- Alert text template that includes runbook links
- Cardinality hazard examples
- Mentor review of your SLO draft
Artifacts you leave with
- Ship a dashboard your team agrees is “quiet by default”
- Author two alerts with explicit recovery owners
- Explain sampling trade-offs to a non-obs teammate
Lead mentor
Kanya Rattan — SRE with on-call scar tissue; teaches signal over volume.
Duration: 5 weeks · mixed async · Format: cohort · Category: foundations · Level: beginner
Price (informational): 9,400 THB — see Money-Back Policy for eligibility notes.
FAQ
We stay open-source first; mention proprietary bridges without endorsing one.
Synthetic workloads only—never ship customer payloads into class sandboxes.
We do not tune enterprise billing exports or finance-grade audit pipelines.
Participant notes
Observability Stack Primer’s cardinality hazard examples stopped us from labeling every user id as a high-card tag.