OTel Specialization

Our OpenTelemetry specialization is an immersive 8-week program with weekly conversations, practical projects, and personalized feedback from OpenTelemetry practitioners.

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Can I enroll in OTel Specialization now, and what does it cost?

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How long is the program, and what mentoring is included?

OTel Specialization is an eight-week cohort program with weekly expert conversations, practical projects, and personalized feedback.

What language are the courses taught in?

Telemetry Drops courses are taught in English only.

Who teaches the courses?

Juraci Paixão Kröhling teaches the courses. He is an OpenTelemetry maintainer and contributor whose work includes the Collector Builder and OpenTelemetry Operator.

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Does a course completion certificate award OTCA certification?

No. A Telemetry Drops completion certificate is separate from CNCF's OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) credential. Our practice exam is independent preparation and does not award certification.

Which topics does the course cover?

The curriculum covers instrumentation, signals, the data model, API, SDK, Collector pipelines, the Operator, architecture, migration, and observability culture. See the course modules on this page for the full lesson list.

Where can I read the terms and cancellation policy?

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How can my team ask about training?

Email contact@telemetrydrops.com with your team’s OpenTelemetry experience, the topics you want to learn, and the course or workshop you are interested in.

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What you'll learn

Discover the complete course content and skills you'll develop

Weekly conversations

Weekly sessions with experts where you can ask questions and receive personalized guidance.

Practical projects

Develop real projects that simulate production environments and receive detailed feedback.

Exclusive community

Access to a private group where you can interact with other students and share experiences.

Completion certificate

Upon completing the course, you receive a certificate that attests to your OpenTelemetry skills.

Exclusive material

Access to content, articles, and resources that aren't available anywhere else.

Priority support

Direct channel with instructors to resolve technical questions throughout the program.

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What our students say

Real experiences from those who have already learned with us

"I've been an SRE for 6 years, the immersion was phenomenal. Juraci is one of the minds behind OpenTelemetry, very detailed, he breaks down point by point. Being one of the creators, he can really go deep. Expectations successfully exceeded!"

Willian Saavedra

Site Reliability Engineer , Itaú

"Very instructive, well aligned with my future perspectives, both technically and managerially. The future of observability has matured into a standard, and this standard is OpenTelemetry."

Cláudio Bastos

CTO , Mensis Tecnologia

"I was able to go deeper and ask questions, it exceeded my expectations, I had several insights from what Juraci brought."

Mateus Santos

CTO , Vericode

Course modules

Content organized progressively to facilitate your learning

1 The Basics in 3 Lessons

1 Instrumenting an Application

2 Visualizing Telemetry

3 Placing a Collector in the Middle

2 Fundamentals

1 Problems We Solve

2 Audiences

3 Project Philosophy

4 Instrumentation

5 Telemetry

6 Observability

7 Monitoring

8 OpenTelemetry

9 Bonus: Observability 2.0

3 Observability Signals

1 Logs

2 Metrics

3 Traces

4 Profiles

5 Events

4 OTel in Practice

1 What Are We Going to Observe?

2 What Are Our Pain Points?

3 Adding OTel SDK

4 Instrumenting Our Initialization

5 Observing HTTP Calls

6 Propagating Context Manually

7 New Spans, or Events?

8 Understanding Normal Latency Between Services

5 Data Model

1 Introduction

2 Attributes

3 Scope

4 Resources

5 Context

6 Baggage

7 Traces

8 Metrics

9 Logs

10 Profiles

11 Bonus: Entities

6 OpenTelemetry API

1 Events

2 Audience

3 Tracing

4 Metrics

5 Profiles

6 Log Bridge

7 OpenTelemetry SDK

1 SDKs in Detail

2 The Basics to Survive

3 Resources

4 Distributed Tracing

5 Metrics

6 Logs

7 Using a Configuration File

8 OpenTelemetry Collector

1 Introduction

2 Component Types

3 Getting the Collector

4 Configuration

5 Agents vs. Gateways vs. Collectors

6 Monitoring Collectors

7 OTTL - Introduction

8 OTTL - Context

9 OTTL - Advanced Cases

10 Resilience Techniques - Queues

11 Resilience Techniques - WAL

12 Resilience Techniques - Messaging

13 Security - TLS

14 Security - Authentication

15 Building Your Collector

16 Connectors: Span Metrics

17 Scaling the Collector

9 Extending the Collector

1 Introduction

2 Extensions

3 Receivers

4 Processors

5 Exporters

6 Connectors

10 OpenTelemetry Operator

1 Introduction

2 Operators for Kubernetes

3 CRD - Collector

4 Collector Operation Modes

5 Installation

6 CRD - Auto-Instrumentation

7 Target Allocator

11 OpAMP

1 OpAMP

12 Architecture

1 Architecture - Instrumentation

2 Architecture - Pipeline

13 AI

1 A Glimpse of the Future

2 AI for Observability

3 Observability for AI

14 Migration

1 Migration

15 Observability Culture

1 Observability Culture

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