OTCA
OpenTelemetry Certified Associate
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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry (LFS148)
by Linux Foundation
Learn to use OpenTelemetry to build and manage unified observability.
Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (LFS162)
by Linux Foundation
Learn how to start transforming your organization using the principles and practices of DevOps.
Monitoring Modern Infrastructure (2024)
by Datadog
FREE - Collecting metrics, alerting, and investigating performance issues
The Elastic Observability Guide (2024)
by Elastic / AWS
FREE - Unified observability with logs, metrics, and traces
Security Observability with eBPF (2024)
by Isovalent
FREE - Runtime security observability using eBPF and Tetragon
Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability (2024)
by Steve Flanders
Enhancing application and infrastructure performance, avoiding outages
Practical OpenTelemetry (2024)
by Daniel Gomez Blanco
Adopting open observability standards across your organization
Learning OpenTelemetry (2024)
by Ted Young, Austin Parker
Setting up and operating OpenTelemetry for cloud native applications
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification
Study materials and exercises maintained by the community
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
Study materials and exercises maintained by the community
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo
Study materials and exercises maintained by the community
Is the OTCA Exam Right for You?
by OpenTelemetry
Official insights on OTCA exam scope and preparation
OpenTelemetry Blog
by OpenTelemetry
Official OpenTelemetry blog with releases and tutorials
Grafana Labs Observability Blog
by Grafana Labs
OpenTelemetry integrations and observability patterns
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