Source Instrumentation for Monitoring C++ in Production

This course demonstrates portable techniques for instrumenting C++ applications so teams can troubleshoot functional issues and identify performance bottlenecks in production. It uses practical code examples to explain logging, tracing, metrics, and the trade-off between diagnostic detail and instrumentation overhead.

Syllabus

Introduction
First Attempt at C
Debugging
Instrumentation
Logging
Adding Context
Structured Logging
Tracing
Tracing and Logging
Distributed Tracing
Logging to Tracing
Linking Operations
Visualization
Tracings not free
Metrics
Open Metrics
Counters
increment operation
other counters
reading lines
conclusion