Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Signals, Traces, and Noise Control

Wire metrics and traces without turning dashboards into wallpaper.

Duration
4 days
Format
Live online cohort
Skill level
Intermediate
Certification focus
General reliability
Team size
Pairs

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Program cover art for Signals, Traces, and Noise Control

Overview

Monitoring and troubleshooting week teaches you to choose a small signal set, propagate trace context responsibly, and narrate graphs during incidents without drowning teammates in panels.

What is included

  • Prometheus scrape hygiene exercises
  • Trace sampling tradeoff worksheet
  • Log volume budgeting with sidecar pitfalls called out
  • Dashboard critique studio
  • Live tail pairing on structured logs
  • Runbook snippet library for common kube-state signals
  • Optional night lab for night-shift engineers

Outcomes

  • Propose three golden signals for a sample service
  • Demonstrate trace correlation across two services
  • Trim redundant alerts from a starter rules file

Lead instructor for this track

Elias Romero

Ex-observability vendor educator; now allergic to chart sprawl.

FAQ

Which stacks are installed?

Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry collectors—versions pinned per cohort announcement.

Can we bring proprietary agents?

Not into shared clusters; talk to us about a private lab build if you need that fidelity.

What is out of scope?

We do not tune enterprise appliance appliances; focus stays on Kubernetes-native telemetry.

Recent learner notes

  • Finally someone said aloud that half our dashboards were vanity.