Study guide
OTCA study guide
Read a lesson, then practice the ideas you want to remember.
Lessons
- Architectural Separation of API and SDK
- Composability & Extension: Plugin Interfaces
- Span Events, Attributes & Status Codes — Free Study Guide 2026
- The Core Trace Model: Spans, SpanContext & L
- Collector Configuration Structure & Pipeline
- Collector Core Architecture & Component Life
- Essential Collector Extensions — Free Study Guide 2026
- Standard Exporters & Delivery Guarantees
- Core Processors & Execution Order — Free Study Guide 2026
- Standard Receivers & Ingestion Protocols
- Resilience: Backpressure, Buffering & Persis
- Agent vs Gateway Deployment Topologies — Free Study Guide 2026
- Scaling, Load Balancing & High Availability
- Advanced Connectors — Free Study Guide 2026
- OTTL Concepts & Syntax Grammar — Free Study Guide 2026
- Transform Processor In Action — Free Study Guide 2026
- In-Process & Cross-Process Context Propagati
- W3C Baggage & Alternative Propagators — Free Study Guide 2026
- W3C Trace Context Specification — Free Study Guide 2026
- The Logging Bridge API & Log Appenders — Free Study Guide 2026
- OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model & Architecture
- Debugging Collector Pipelines & Telemetry He
- Schema Management & Telemetry Evolution
- Troubleshooting Broken Traces & Context Loss
- Metric Aggregations & Temporality — Free Study Guide 2026
- Asynchronous Metric Instruments — Free Study Guide 2026
- Synchronous Metric Instruments — Free Study Guide 2026
- Telemetry Analysis, SLOs & High Cardinality
- Core Telemetry Signals: Traces, Metrics, Log
- OTCA Exam Structure & Observability Paradigm
- Head-Based Sampling & Built-in Samplers
- OpenTelemetry SDK Configuration & Environmen
- Tail-Based Sampling vs Head-Based Sampling
- Zero-Code Agents: Configuration, Kubernetes
- Metric Readers & Log Processors — Free Study Guide 2026
- Standard Exporters & OTLP Wire Protocols
- Span Processors & Exporters — Free Study Guide 2026
- Zero-Code vs Code-Based Instrumentation
- Resource Attributes & Entity Modeling — Free Study Guide 2026
- OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions & Namespa