Instrumentation Courses

NDC Conferences

Logging, Tracing and Metrics - Instrumentation in .NET and Azure

Instrument .NET services with logs, traces, and metrics to diagnose production issues and correlate activity across Azure and container-based applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hack In The Box Security Conference

IDA2Obj - Static Binary Instrumentation on Steroids

Explore IDA2Obj, a static binary instrumentation tool that dumps object files from executables for code coverage and integration with fuzzing engines.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hackaday

Intro to Instrumentation Amplifiers

Learn how instrumentation amplifiers extract tiny differential sensor signals through high gain, high impedance, low drift, and common-mode noise rejection.

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

Black Hat

Break Out of The Truman Show - Active Detection and Escape of Dynamic Binary Instrumentation

Explore active detection techniques for Dynamic Binary Instrumentation, focusing on exploiting weaknesses and escaping control. Learn to identify and overcome DBI environments in cybersecurity.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Abusing Windows Management Instrumentation - WMI

Explore WMI's potential for stealthy, persistent attacks on Windows systems. Learn offensive techniques, backdoor creation, and defense strategies against WMI-based threats.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Using Raspberry Pi With Connected Analog as Lab Instrumentation

Use a Raspberry Pi with Linux device drivers and connected analog hardware to measure real signals and operate lab instrumentation.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Recon Conference

Static Instrumentation Based on Executable File Formats

Explore architecture-independent static instrumentation by modifying executable file formats to enable code injection and hooking without privileged environments.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Fine-Tuning Auto-Instrumentation for Observability

Learn how to tune automatic instrumentation configurations to capture useful telemetry while removing data you don’t need.

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

Using Native OpenTelemetry Instrumentation to Make Client Libraries Better

Shows how native OpenTelemetry signals from stress tests reveal avoidable requests, retry gaps, excess memory use, and thread pool configuration problems in client libraries.

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

Implementing Auto Instrumentation for OTel Java Agent with GraalVM Static Compilation

A static instrumentation design preserves OTel Java Agent auto-instrumentation after GraalVM compilation, with test results showing how the solution performs.

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

Linux Plumbers Conference

Libside: Tracer-Agnostic Instrumentation API for User-Space Applications

libside gives applications a tracer-agnostic API for declaring instrumentation that kernel and user-space tracers can discover and use.

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

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Kubernetes Observability and Debugging

Explore how Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation advances tracing and connects traces with logs and metrics to help diagnose clusters and contribute to instrumentation work.

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

How to Think About Instrumentation Overhead

A primer on why observability instrumentation overhead is difficult to predict, with practical ways to assess and manage it.

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

SIG Instrumentation: Introduction, Deep Dive, and Recent Developments

Explore how structured, contextual logging makes Kubernetes logs parseable and supports cluster debugging alongside traces and metrics.

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

DevConf

Zero-Instrumentation Observability Based on eBPF

Explore eBPF-based telemetry data collection for enhanced system observability, covering metrics, logs, traces, and container activities for efficient troubleshooting.

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