CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Telemetry Pipelines - Never Gonna Let You Down

Explore strategies for keeping telemetry flowing through incidents, including continuous ingestion, stream management, and resilience to backend disruptions.

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

Correlating Application and Database Performance Using OpenTelemetry

See how OpenTelemetry’s sqlcommenter propagates trace context in SQL queries to connect application requests with database performance observations.

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

Scaling OpenTelemetry for Modern Workloads - From Mobile to Mainframe

See how OpenTelemetry unifies observability across mobile, distributed, and mainframe workloads while its Collector handles high volumes of metrics and spans.

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

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

How eBay extends open-source observability tools to meet organizational needs and scale large tracing systems.

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

Faster Insights and Improved Accuracy - Spotify's Prometheus Upgrade

A migration from Heroic to VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus shows how Spotify gained faster queries, more accurate metrics, and lower costs.

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

Introducing Distrogen - A Tool for Generating OpenTelemetry Collector Distributions

See how Distrogen generates templates for managing OpenTelemetry Collector builds, updates, and Docker images.

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

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

A case for a Kotlin-native OpenTelemetry API and SDK that gives Android developers incremental value and supports Kotlin Multiplatform.

• 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

Learn how planning and governance prevent common OpenTelemetry mistakes, from over-instrumentation to excessive traces, logs, and metrics.

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

Get Started with OpenTelemetry in 15 Minutes - The JavaScript Journey

A 15-minute walkthrough of auto-instrumenting a JavaScript app and sending its telemetry through the OpenTelemetry Collector for visualization.

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

No Dependencies, No Plugins - Just Native OpenTelemetry

Learn how Java client libraries can make OpenTelemetry instrumentation work as an optional dependency, with logs-based tracing as a fallback.

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

Taming Metric Cardinality - Practical Cost Reduction With the OpenTelemetry Collector

Learn to control metric cardinality with OpenTelemetry Collector filters and OTTL, reducing backend costs while preserving useful signals.

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

Weaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry - A Schema Strategy With Weaver

A Comcast case study on using Weaver to unify legacy trace attributes with OpenTelemetry conventions while preserving existing queries, visualizations, and alerts.

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

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

Learn how telemetry embedded in GitOps pipelines can improve reliability, security, and cloud performance across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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

One Size Doesn't Fit All - Adding Org-Specific Gateway API Extensions with Envoy Gateway

Learn how organizations extend Envoy Gateway with custom Gateway API policies and filters while keeping its Kubernetes-native control plane.

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