Telemetry Capture and Integration in .NET Microservices

Building distributed microservices introduces complex debugging challenges when system components fail silently. Understanding how to capture, correlate, and analyze telemetry data is essential for maintaining healthy, reliable applications. This text-only course guides you through the foundational concepts of observability, helping you implement comprehensive monitoring in your .NET applications. You will learn to track system health, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and gain deep operational insights using modern OpenTelemetry standards. What you'll learn: - Understand the core pillars of observability, including logs, metrics, and distributed tracing. - Configure OpenTelemetry within .NET microservices to collect system performance data. - Implement distributed tracing to track requests across multiple service boundaries. - Capture custom metrics and structured logs to monitor business-critical operations. - Integrate telemetry data with visualization and analysis tools for real-time monitoring. - Apply best practices for secure and efficient telemetry data collection in production. Starting with fundamental terminology and architectural concepts, you will progress through structured text lessons and configuration walkthroughs. You will read clear explanations and practice configuring telemetry pipelines step-by-step to build reliable, observable systems. This course is designed for backend developers, software engineers, and system architects new to application monitoring and observability in .NET. No prior experience with OpenTelemetry is required, though a basic understanding of .NET web APIs is helpful. Start reading today to build reliable, observable .NET microservices with confidence.