Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Observability Professional (2025): Hands-on Workshop

Module 01: Pillars of Observability

• What is Observability
• Traditional Monitoring & Challenges
• Definition of Observability
• Comparing Monitoring and Observability
• Introducing Observability and Management Services
• Use Case: Observability and Management in DevOps

Module 02: Monitoring Service

• Monitoring Service Overview
• OCI Monitoring Service: Getting Started
• Monitoring Capabilities & Workflow
• Monitoring Concepts: Metrics, Intervals, Resolutions, Statistics
• Alarms and Metric Query Components
• Hands-on Demos:
• Monitoring Concepts
• Alarms
• Notifications Service Overview & Creating a Topic
• Best Practices for Alarms and Notifications
• Access and Limits
• Ways to Access Monitoring
• IAM Policies & Restricted Access
• Limits of Monitoring Service
• Metric Queries: Building, Nested, Sample Queries
• Hands-on Demo: Metric Queries

Module 03: Logging Service

• Logging Service Overview
• OCI Logging Service: Types of Logs
• Service Flow and Logging Concepts
• Log Groups, Service Logs, Service Log Format
• Object Storage Logs, Load Balancer Logs, VCN Flow Logs
• Hands-on Demo: Service Logs
• Custom Logs & Unified Monitoring Agent
• Agent Communication Workflow & Configuration
• Hands-on Demo: Custom Logs
• Access & Explore Logs
• IAM Policies, Searching Logs, Viewing Log Events
• Logging Queries: Specification, Log Streams, Fields, Data Types, Operators
• Hands-on Demo: Logging Queries
• Connector Hub Overview, Workflow & Use Cases
• Hands-on Demo: Connector Hub
• Audit Logs
• OCI Audit Service, Viewing Events, IAM Policies
• Hands-on Demo: Audit Logs

Module 04: Events Service

• Events Concepts Overview
• Using Events vs Explicit Polling
• OCI Events Service Concepts
• Event Messages and Event Types
• Rule Actions & Destinations
• Integration with Services:
• Streaming Service, Oracle Functions, Notifications Service
• Hands-on Demo: Rule Actions
• Working with Rules:
• Creating Rules, Configuring in OCI Console, Metrics, Design Considerations
• Hands-on Demo: Working with Rules

Module 05: Log Analytics

• Log Analytics Overview
• From Raw Logs to Insights
• Key Benefits & Use Cases
• Onboarding Log Analytics & Data Flow
• Source Types & Collection Methods
• Roles: Users, Admins, Super Admins
• Hands-on Demo: Log Analytics Onboarding
• Log Data Management
• Governance, Access Controls, Storage Management
• Log Explorer and Dashboards
• Overview, User Interface, Hands-on Demo
• Entities and Log Sources
• Fields, Labels, Lookups
• Hands-on Demo: Log Sources
• Basic Analytics & Data Visualizations
• Filtering, Removing Noise, Hands-on Demo
• Query Language: Parts, Dissecting Queries, Hands-on Demo
• Log Cluster & Log Reduction
• Hands-on Demo: Log Clustering
• Link Analysis & Correlation
• Hands-on Demo: Link Analysis
• Log Ingestion: Management Agent, Service Connector, Object Storage
• Hands-on Demos: Log Ingestion with Agent, Service Connector, Object Storage

Module 06: Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

• APM Overview & Key Purposes
• Service Architecture & Fundamental Concepts
• Glance APM Features & Trace Explorer
• Hands-on Demo: Trace Explorer
• APM Domains & Data Sources
• Tracing:
• APM Tracer, Browser Agent, Java Agent, OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes
• Monolithic vs Microservices Applications
• Fundamentals of Distributed Tracing
• Standards, Trace Data Collection, Key Characteristics
• Hands-on Demo: Access APM & Features
• Dashboards and Metrics
• Creating Custom Dashboards & Alarms for APM Metrics
• Application Performance Index (APDEX)
• Span Filters, Metric Groups, Custom Dimensions
• Real User Monitoring & Synthetic Monitoring
• Dedicated & On-Premises Vantage Points
• Hands-on Demos: Synthetic Monitoring & Dedicated Vantage Points

Module 07: Stack Monitoring

• Stack Monitoring Overview

Discovery and Monitoring of Applications and Infrastructure in Hybrid Environments

• Resource Home Pages & Enterprise Health
• Hands-on Demo: Stack Monitoring Overview
• Resource Discovery & Best Practices
• Hands-on Demo: Resource Discovery
• Monitoring Custom Resources
• Extending Out-of-the-Box Resource Types with Prometheus, Telegraf, Collectd
• Hands-on Demo: Monitoring Custom Resources
• Baselines and Anomalies
• ML-Based Baselines, Metric Extensions, Hands-on Demo
• Monitoring Templates & Maintenance Windows
• Hands-on Demos: Monitoring Templates, Maintenance Windows