The Observability Engineering Masterclass with Liz Fong-Jones

Six live sessions, Aug 3 – Oct 14

Turn Observability Engineering into practice. No prior reading required.

Hear from Liz

Liz Fong-Jones invites you to the series and previews what's ahead: the wide events framework, the SLO traps to avoid, and the cost levers most teams miss.

Six sessions that turn theory into practice

This live masterclass series with engineering leader and author Liz Fong-Jones turns the frameworks from Observability Engineering into workflows, diagnostics, and decisions your team can workshop, chapter by chapter.

Session 1 | Aug 3: Fundamentals: Wide Events & Instrumentation with OTel

Live at 10am PT/1pm ET

Most instrumentation stalls because teams log everything and structure nothing. Learn what makes an event “wide” and how to instrument for it with OpenTelemetry, without over-engineering your first pass.

Session 2 | Aug 19: Feedback Loops: Observability as the Connective Tissue of Delivery

Live at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET
Observability is a feedback loop that should run through your whole delivery process. Learn to wire it into CI/CD so you catch regressions in minutes.

Session 3 | Sep 2:
The Business Case & the Investment Diagnostic

Live at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET
Getting budget means talking business outcomes, not query latency. Walk through a diagnostic for where your org stands today and build a case that resonates with the people who sign the checks.

Session 4 | Sep 16:
SLIs and SLOs for the Modern Era

Live at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET
SLOs fail more often from bad implementation than bad intentions. Learn to choose SLIs that reflect real user experience and set SLOs that actually drive prioritization decisions.

Session 5 | Sep 30: What Observability Costs & How to Make It Cost Less

Live at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET
Cardinality, retention, and sampling decisions all carry real dollar signs. Learn where cost comes from and how to cut spend without losing the signal you need during an incident.

Session 6 | Oct 14: Observability in Every Domain

Live at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET
Observability was born in backend services, but the same principles extend to mobile, data pipelines, ML systems, and IoT. This closing session takes wide events and SLOs beyond your API gateway.

Why this masterclass?

Most masterclasses teach theory secondhand. Learn from the experts who literally wrote the book on observability. Every session turns a chapter's ideas into a working framework your team can leverage right away.

Written by the author

Liz Fong-Jones is an engineering leader and co-author of Observability Engineering, teaching the frameworks directly from the source instead of a secondhand summary of the book.

Theory into practice

Each session turns a chapter's ideas into a live demo, a working framework, or a diagnostic you can run on your own org that same week.

Live or self-serve

Join live for real-time Q&A with Liz, or catch up anytime with the recording and a self-serve lab built for that session's topic.

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