Distributed Tracing and Monitoring with OpenCensus

This course on Distributed Tracing and Monitoring with OpenCensus aims to teach learners how to utilize OpenCensus for tracing and metrics of cloud services. By using open source and vendor agnostic client libraries, participants will learn to export telemetry to common distributed tracing systems like Zipkin. The course covers core concepts such as tags, metrics, exporters, zPages, and trace context propagation. The teaching method includes practical demonstrations and discussions on configuring exporters, samplers, instrumentation with metrics, and integration with various systems. This course is intended for developers, cloud engineers, and anyone interested in enhancing observability in applications spanning multiple clouds and technological stacks.