Deploy OpenTelemetry Gateway on AWS: Monitoring Your Observability Pipeline

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Learners will gain practical skills in deploying an OpenTelemetry Gateway on Amazon EKS and instrumenting the gateway itself to monitor the health of their observability pipeline. They will learn OpenTelemetry Collector deployment patterns -- agent, sidecar, and gateway modes -- and understand when to use each. The course covers exposing gateway health metrics, forwarding them to Amazon CloudWatch using native OpenTelemetry metrics support, building PromQL-based dashboards with PromQL Query Studio, and setting up alarms to detect pipeline degradation such as data loss from backpressure or misconfiguration.