Open Source Observability Stack Essentials
Completed by Abdullah Amjad
July 3, 2026
4 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Explain the roles of metrics, logs, and traces and map Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to each signal in a modern stack.
Deploy a minimal local stack (Docker or native): scrape metrics with Prometheus, route telemetry via OTel Collector, and visualize in Grafana.
Instrument a sample app with OpenTelemetry, confirm traces/metrics flow end-to-end, and build a basic Grafana dashboard.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Kubernetes
- Category: Service Level
- Category: Development Environment
- Category: Site Reliability Engineering
- Category: System Monitoring
- Category: Grafana
- Category: Open Source Technology
- Category: Docker (Software)
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: Query Languages
- Category: Dashboard Creation
- Category: Prometheus (Software)
