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Welcome to the observability labs.

These are hands-on resources to help you learn monitoring, logging and tracing.

Pre-reqs

• Set up Docker and a Git client
• Download your repo
  • Open a terminal (PowerShell on Windows; any shell on Linux/macOS)
  • Run: git clone https://github.com/courselabs/observability.git
  • Open the folder: cd observability
• Optional
  • Install Visual Studio Code (free - Windows, macOS and Linux) to browse the repo and documentation

Part 1 - Metrics

• Exporting metrics
• Running Prometheus

Part 2 - Building Health Dashboards

• Querying metrics
• Running Grafana
• Building Grafana dashboards

Part 3 - Centralized Log Collection

• Writing logs
• Running Elasticsearch
• Collecting logs with Logstash

Part 4 - Searching and Visualizing Logs

• Running Kibana
• Searching with the query DSL
• Building Kibana dashboards

Part 5 - Distributed Tracing

• Application traces
• Running Jaeger
• Custom spans

Part 6 - Real-World Observability

• Troubleshooting
• Hackathon!

Credits

Created by @EltonStoneman (sixeyed): Freelance Consultant and Trainer. Author of Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches and many Pluralsight courses.

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash