The Observability Engineering Masterclass with Liz Fong-Jones
Turn Observability Engineering into practice. No prior reading required.
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Six sessions that turn theory into practice
This hands-on 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.
Fundamentals: Wide Events & Instrumentation with OTel
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.
Feedback Loops: Observability as the Connective Tissue of Delivery
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.
The Business Case & the Investment Diagnostic
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.
SLIs & SLOs for the Modern Era
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.
What Observability Costs & How to Make It Cost Less
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.
Observability in Every Domain
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.