CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Telemetry Pipelines - Never Gonna Let You Down

Discover proven strategies for building robust telemetry pipelines that maintain reliability during critical incidents and backend disruptions in cloud-native environments.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Correlating Application and Database Performance Using OpenTelemetry

Discover how OpenTelemetry's sqlcommenter feature enables correlation between client and server-side database observations for enhanced performance troubleshooting insights.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling OpenTelemetry for Modern Workloads - From Mobile to Mainframe

Discover how to scale OpenTelemetry across diverse infrastructures, from mobile to mainframe, handling millions of metrics and spans per second for unified observability.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Innovating on Top of Open Source Observability - Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation

Discover how eBay scales observability tools like Prometheus, Alertmanager & OpenTelemetry through innovative enhancements including alert enrichment, spanmetrics connectors & ClickHouse backends.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Faster Insights and Improved Accuracy - Spotify's Prometheus Upgrade

Discover how Spotify migrated from Heroic to VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus, achieving 10x faster queries, cost savings, and improved data accuracy in this technical migration case study.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introducing Distrogen - A Tool for Generating OpenTelemetry Collector Distributions

Discover Distrogen, a tool that automates OpenTelemetry Collector distribution management with templates for builds, updates, and Docker images beyond basic ocb functionality.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Beyond Good Enough - Why We Want a Kotlin API and SDK

Discover why Embrace is developing a pure Kotlin OpenTelemetry API and SDK for Android developers, focusing on idiomatic mobile development and Kotlin Multiplatform support.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Zero to Developer - My One Year Serendipity Journey With OpenTelemetry

Discover how to transform from first-time contributor to active open-source developer through a one-year OpenTelemetry journey, covering community navigation and meaningful contributions.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Avoiding Chaotic Dysfunction - The 'Don't Do This' Guide to OpenTelemetry

Discover common OpenTelemetry implementation mistakes and learn to build efficient observability strategies that provide actionable insights without overwhelming your systems.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Get Started with OpenTelemetry in 15 Minutes - The JavaScript Journey

Discover how to implement OpenTelemetry in JavaScript applications through auto-instrumentation, data collection, processing, and visualization in just 15 minutes.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

No Dependencies, No Plugins - Just Native OpenTelemetry

Discover how to implement truly optional OpenTelemetry dependencies in client libraries without plugins or abstractions, using Azure SDKs for Java as a practical example.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Taming Metric Cardinality - Practical Cost Reduction With the OpenTelemetry Collector

Master practical strategies to reduce high-cardinality metrics costs using OpenTelemetry Collector and OTTL for sustainable observability pipelines.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Weaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry - A Schema Strategy With Weaver

Discover how to migrate from proprietary tracing to OpenTelemetry using Weaver tool for unified schema strategy, maintaining compatibility while adopting standards.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Observability-First DevSecOps - Building Resilient Multi-Cloud Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and GitOps

Discover how to build observability-first DevSecOps pipelines using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and GitOps across multi-cloud environments to reduce MTTR and optimize performance.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Solving Android App Issues with OpenTelemetry - Beyond Local Profiling

Discover how OpenTelemetry helps debug real-world Android app issues that local profiling tools miss, addressing production problems across diverse devices and network conditions.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video