Automation and Monitoring

Observability Without Vanity Walls

You learn to instrument services minimally, correlate IDs across systems, and write incident narratives that cite spans—not screenshots of pretty graphs.

Duration
5 weeks
Format
Remote-first cohort
Tuition reference
KRW 1,780,000

Lead mentor notes

Daniel Rhee

Lab systems engineer focused on reproducible storage drills.

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What is inside

  • Structured logging schema workshop
  • Trace ID propagation lab
  • Sampling tradeoff discussion
  • Runbook linking drill
  • Noise budget exercise
  • Guest talk from a former incident commander
  • Capstone: week-long observability diary

Outcomes you can cite

  1. Add three structured fields that survived a code review
  2. Tie a trace to a log line with shared IDs
  3. Edit a status board down to actionable tiles only

Participant voices

“Noise budget exercise embarrassed our old wall of tiles—in a useful way.”
Priya · Observability intern · ★★★★ · Trustpilot
“Trace+log correlation finally clicked after the propagation lab.”
Jin · Seoul

Straight FAQ

We discuss OpenTelemetry-shaped data. Vendor agents are out of scope.