Syllabus

Here is the outline of the materials that you going to learn in this bootcamp. They will be covered in the form or write-up, lab/challenge, and a final challenge in each subtopic (e.g. logging, metrics, tracing).

Grafana

• Introduction to Grafana
• Grafana setup

Logging

• Introduction to logging
• Structured logging
• Log correlation
• Log output (files, stdout, etc.)
• Logging with Go and Zerolog + [Lab/Challenges]
• Introduction to log collector agent and Fluentbit
• Collecting logs files with Fluentbit + [Lab/Challenges]
• Collecting container logs with Fluentbit + [Lab/Challenges]
• Introduction to Grafana Loki
• Grafana Loki setup + [Lab/Challenges]
• Sending logs to Grafana Loki + [Lab/Challenges]
• Querying logs in Grafana Loki with LogQL
• [Final Logging Challenges]: Monitoring gRPC service and databases with logs and logs metrics

Metrics

Prometheus

• Introduction to system service monitoring
• Introduction to Prometheus
• Prometheus setup + [Lab/Challenges]
• Prometheus metric types
• Prometheus basic query + [Lab/Challenges]
• Using pre-built dashboards to Grafana + [Lab/Challenges]
• Prometheus exporters
• Monitor container metrics + [Lab/Challenges]
• Instrumenting Go application with Prometheus + [Lab/Challenges]

OpenTelemetry

• Introduction to OpenTelemetry
• Collecting metrics with OpenTelemetry + [Lab/Challenges]
• OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation + [Lab/Challenges]
• [Final Metric Challenges]: Monitoring gRPC service and databases with metrics

Tracing

• Introduction to tracing
• Introduction and setting up Jaeger + [Lab/Challenges]
• Collecting trace with OpenTelemetry Part 1 + [Lab/Challenges]
• Collecting trace with OpenTelemetry Part 2 + [Lab/Challenges]
• Tracing context propagation + [Lab/Challenges]
• [Final Tracing Challenges]: Enabling tracing for gRPC service and databases with traces