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OTCA · 2 days (14 h)
OTCA Exam Preparation — OpenTelemetry Certified Associate
OpenTelemetry end to end: instrument, collect, and export your services' telemetry, all the way to the OTCA exam.
Objectives
- Pass the OTCA multiple-choice exam
- Instrument a service with the OpenTelemetry API and SDK
- Configure a Collector: receivers, processors, exporters
- Debug a telemetry pipeline that is losing data
Audience
Developers and SREs who want standardized telemetry rather than one proprietary agent per vendor.
Prerequisites
- Hands-on experience with a programming language
- Observability notions: metrics, logs, or traces
Program
Observability fundamentals
- Signals: traces, metrics, logs
- Context and propagation
API and SDK
- Automatic vs manual instrumentation
- Spans, attributes, and resources
- Sampling
The Collector
- Receivers, processors, exporters
- Deployment modes: agent, gateway
- The OTLP protocol
Pipelines in production, and mock exam
- Debugging a pipeline: where does the data go?
- Keeping cardinality under control
- Annotated mock multiple-choice test
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