Learn OpenTelemetry by solving real engineering problems
Choose a starting point that matches your work. Our public guides explain concrete decisions and configurations; our courses organize the wider subject into a progressive curriculum.
Written and taught by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry maintainer and Telemetry Drops founder.
Build reliable Collector pipelines
For SREs and platform engineers configuring telemetry collection and routing.
Learn to distinguish telemetry quality problems from volume problems, then work through a severity-based routing configuration.
- Start with telemetry quality and cost
- Work through severity-based log routing
- Get the OTTL quick reference
Continue with Collector modules covering OTTL, queues, WAL, authentication, TLS, connectors and scaling. Compare the course curricula.
Design telemetry contracts and instrumentation
For software engineers and teams standardizing instrumentation across services.
Use the Weaver guide to connect a versioned telemetry schema to generated code, then examine what preserving the OpenTelemetry data model means.
Continue with course modules on the data model, context propagation, API, SDK and manual instrumentation. Compare the course curricula.
Learn from the wider OpenTelemetry community
For engineers evaluating approaches and keeping their knowledge current.
Explore curated conference talks and the OTel Drops podcast, with technical articles available when you want a deeper explanation.
Continue with modules on architecture, migration and observability culture to connect implementation details to team decisions. Compare the course curricula.
Choose the support you need
OTel Track is self-paced. OTel Specialization is an eight-week cohort program with weekly mentoring and personalized project feedback; check the course pages for current enrollment, waitlist options and prices.
Preparing for OTCA?
Use our unofficial OTCA practice exam to check your understanding. The interactive quiz requires JavaScript. Completing a Telemetry Drops course does not award CNCF's OTCA credential.