Once a system is running in the cloud, two questions follow you everywhere: what is it doing right now, and what is it costing? Observability answers the first by letting you understand a system's internal state from the data it produces. FinOps answers the second by bringing engineering and finance together to manage cloud spend.
You'll start with the three pillars of observability: logs (records of events), metrics (numbers measured over time), and traces (the path of a request across services). Then you'll see metrics in action by building dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana, two widely used open source tools.
The second half introduces FinOps: why cloud bills grow, how teams share responsibility for cost, and practical ways to optimize spending without hurting performance. Next up is architecture patterns and migration, where you'll bring everything together.
How metrics, traces, and logs work as the three types of telemetry that give you insight into a running system.
What Grafana is and how it works, with Prometheus monitoring, data sources, and building your first dashboards.
A short introduction to FinOps and its main goal of optimizing cloud costs across an organization.
A beginner-friendly guide to cloud financial operations, covering cost management and optimization from scratch.