OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)

The OTCA is designed for Application Engineers, DevOps Engineers, System Reliability Engineers, Platform Engineers or any IT professional looking to increase their career trajectory by proving their abilities to leverage telemetry data across distributed systems to solve problems and increase team collaboration. 

The OpenTelemetry Certified Associate certification  validates essential skills in setting up and using OpenTelemetry to monitor distributed systems, covering trace, metric, and log collection, which aids in troubleshooting and optimizing performance. Certification also gives professionals a competitive edge in acquiring or progressing in DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineering roles by demonstrating expertise in a critical, widely adopted observability tool. Overall, it’s a solid career investment for advancing in cloud-native practices and enhancing organizational impact.

Those that earn the OTCA demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of the concepts of observability
• Knowledge of how OpenTelemetry enables the concepts of observability
• Understanding of the major components of OpenTelemetry and how they are used
• Knowledge of best practices for instrumenting cloud native applications for observability

CNCF has open sourced the curriculum around which the OCTA exam has been created to guide candidates’ exam preparation and for the benefit of companies offering training.CNCF offers wholesale pricing on our exams to training companies purchasing in bulk. For more information, please contact trainingpartners@cncf.io.