OpenTelemetry Course - Understand Software Performance

OpenTelemetry Course - Understand Software Performance

A concise and practical video by Ania Kubów that introduces you to OpenTelemetry — a powerful, open-source framework for observability. Learn how to monitor and improve software performance across distributed systems.

🧠 What You’ll Learn:

• What OpenTelemetry is and why it matters
• Key concepts: Traces, Metrics, and Logs
• How instrumentation works (manual and automatic)
• Exporting data to observability backends (like Grafana, Jaeger, etc.)
• Setting up a basic OpenTelemetry pipeline in Node.js
• Real-world use cases and benefits for performance monitoring

🎯 Why Watch This Video?

• Straightforward explanation of complex topics
• Real code demos that you can follow along
• Helps you build better, more observable applications
• Perfect intro to modern software monitoring practices

✅ Requirements

• Basic understanding of backend development
• Familiarity with Node.js and JavaScript helpful but not mandatory

👨‍💻 Who Is It For?

• Developers looking to add observability to their applications
• DevOps beginners exploring performance tooling
• Anyone curious about how large-scale apps are monitored in production

Understand what your code is doing in production — get started with OpenTelemetry today!