Observability Foundation Build essential skills in full-stack observability to boost resilience, reliability, and performance across modern distributed systems.
At a Glance
- Suitable for: All IT professionals
- Exam Language: English
- Globally Recognized: Yes
- Certification Renewal: Every 3 years
- Key Benefit
- Enhance system resilience through actionable observability practices that support real-time insight and continuous improvement.
Exam
questions: 40 questions
Multiple choice
duration:60 minutes
open book: Yes
passing-mark: Minimum required score to pass: (65%)
What You’ll Learn
Practical Implementation
Gain hands-on strategies to build and sustain a thriving Observability culture within your organization.
Core Principles of Observability
Understand why traditional monitoring is insufficient—and how Observability addresses the challenges of microservices-based environments.
Three Pillars
Master the foundational components of Observability: logs, metrics, and traces.
Open Telemetry Standards
Leverage Open Telemetry to enable seamless distributed tracing and foster innovation across your stack.
Observability Maturity Model
Learn to assess and evolve your organization’s Observability posture for continuous improvement.
Full-Stack Observability
Implement observability across the entire stack to support a strong DevSecOps culture and enable end-to-end visibility.
AI-Driven Observability
Transition from reactive to proactive incident management using AI and DataOps practices.
Network & Container-Level Observability
Build resilience at the infrastructure level, integrating security as a core element.
Time-Based Topology
Understand how time-based topology enhances system insights in complex, distributed environments.
With Observability Foundation, you will learn about:
- Implementing an Observability culture in your organisation
- Understanding the basic principles of Observability including the Three Pillars and why monitoring alone is not enough
- Adopting OpenTelemetry standards to help achieve innovation and distributed tracing
- Implementing full-stack Observability and distributed tracing to enable a DevSecOps culture
- Understanding levels of the organisational observability maturity to build effective strategies
- Implementing network, container level Observability
Benefits for Organisations
- Implementing Observability leads to higher business value, enhanced stability, and reliability of services
- Improvement in product development, deployment, and operations lifecycle
- Increased balance between technical investment in reliability and customer experience
- Homogenous culture and greater synchronization between product, development, and operational teams improving staff morale
Observability Foundation elearning Benefits for Individuals
- Understanding of practical implementation of Observability, traces, spans, and their correct interpretations
- Designing Observability in services for higher security and reliability
- Building fault-tolerant distributed ecosystems that can be tested for risks of disaster
- Building AIOps intelligence in operations using the Observability pipeline
- Understanding of other roles and contributing towards creating a better workplace culture
