Observability Intermediate Training
Define SLOs with burn-rate alerts, tune OpenTelemetry pipelines and sampling, control cardinality and manage dashboards and alerts as code. Learn Observability through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Observability levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Observability Intermediate Training.
Understand where Observability fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Observability is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Observability program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Intermediate.
Private Observability training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Observability training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Observability usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Intermediate | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Intermediate | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 3 Days | Corporate | Observability Intermediate Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Observability training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Understand observability signals
Explain logs, metrics, traces and alerts and when to use each to answer questions.
Build observability pipelines
Instrument services with OpenTelemetry and run Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Tempo stacks.
Run observability at scale
Use SLOs, cost controls and standards to operate observability across an organisation.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Observability responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Observability matters
- Observability helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Observability becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Observability effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Observability concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Observability in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Observability for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Observability usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Observability.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Intermediate. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: observability concepts, signals and tool landscapeDay 1
- Introduction to observability: what it is, why it is important and how it differs from traditional monitoring
- Key concepts and terminology: telemetry, signals, instrumentation, cardinality, golden signals, RED and USE methods
- Logging overview and types of logs: application, system, access and audit logs, structured versus unstructured
- Metrics overview and types of metrics: counters, gauges, histograms and summaries
- Tracing overview and types of traces: spans, trace context propagation and distributed traces
- Alerting overview and types of alerts: symptom-based versus cause-based, threshold and anomaly alerts
- Telemetry pipeline architecture: agents, collectors, storage backends and visualisation layers
- OpenTelemetry overview: API, SDKs, Collector, OTLP protocol and semantic conventions
- Popular observability tools and frameworks: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Jaeger, Elastic, OpenSearch and SaaS platforms
- First stack: Prometheus, node_exporter and Grafana with Docker Compose and a first dashboard
Essential Level = Foundation + collection, storage, querying, dashboards and alert routingDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Log collection and aggregation: Fluent Bit, Vector or Grafana Alloy shipping logs to Loki or Elasticsearch
- Log analysis and visualization: LogQL queries in Grafana and Kibana searches for troubleshooting
- Metric collection and storage: Prometheus scraping, exporters, service discovery, retention and remote write
- Metric analysis and visualization: PromQL rate, sum by and histogram_quantile in Grafana panels
- Trace collection and storage: OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation, Collector pipelines, Jaeger or Grafana Tempo
- Trace analysis and visualization: waterfall views, critical path, service maps and trace-to-log links
- Alerting rules and thresholds: Prometheus alerting rules, for durations and Grafana alerting
- Alert notification and escalation: Alertmanager routes, grouping, inhibition, silences and on-call escalation
- Instrumenting an application: custom metrics with client libraries and structured logs carrying trace IDs
- Kubernetes observability basics: kube-prometheus-stack, kube-state-metrics and cAdvisor
- Dashboard design: golden signals layouts, variables and avoiding dashboard sprawl
- Signal correlation: exemplars linking metrics to traces and logs to traces
Intermediate Level = Essential + SLOs, OpenTelemetry pipelines, scale and automationDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Service level objectives: SLIs, SLO targets, error budgets and multi-window burn-rate alerts with Sloth or Pyrra
- OpenTelemetry Collector in depth: receivers, processors such as batch, memory_limiter and attributes, exporters and routing
- Sampling strategies: head-based versus tail-based sampling and the cost versus fidelity trade-off
- Cardinality management: label hygiene, relabelling, drop rules and finding expensive series
- Long-term metrics storage: Thanos, Grafana Mimir or VictoriaMetrics for retention and global queries
- Continuous profiling: Grafana Pyroscope and eBPF profilers as a fourth signal
- eBPF-based observability: zero-code instrumentation with Grafana Beyla and network visibility with Cilium Hubble
- Synthetic and real user monitoring: blackbox_exporter probes, synthetic checks and browser RUM
- Observability as code: dashboards and alert rules in Git with the Grafana Terraform provider and CI validation
- Telemetry security: PII redaction, TLS between agents and backends and multi-tenant access
- Incident investigation workflow: alert to dashboard to trace to log, runbooks and postmortems
- Troubleshooting the pipeline: dropped spans, scrape failures, backpressure and collector memory issues
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Observability levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Stand up a first observability stack
Run Prometheus, node_exporter and Grafana with Docker Compose, build a host dashboard and identify which questions logs and traces would answer next.
Full-signal view of a microservice
Instrument a small microservice with OpenTelemetry, send metrics, logs and traces to Prometheus, Loki and Tempo, and route a latency alert to a chat channel.
SLO-driven alerting as code
Define SLOs for a service, generate burn-rate alerts, add tail sampling in the Collector and manage the dashboards and alerts through a Git pull request.
Observability is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Observability with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Observability certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Observability level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Observability Intermediate Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
“Rajesh is very good trainer. Rajesh was able to resolve our queries and question effectively. We really liked the hands-on examples covered during this training program.”
“Very well organized training, helped a lot to understand the AWS concept and detailed related to various tools. Very helpful”
“The training was very useful and interactive. Rajesh helped develop the confidence of all.”
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Observability path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Observability Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Observability level fits your team.
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USA: +1 (469) 756-6329
Email: contact@DevOpsSchool.com
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Continue learning with supporting articles that connect Observability practices to DevOps, automation, governance and delivery workflows.
Training snapshots and certificate preview.
A look at the completion certificate and the course.
Certificate preview
See what course completion evidence looks like.
Tool-focused training
Course visuals reinforce the Observability workflow and subject area.
Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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