OpenTelemetry certification launches

“Earning your OTCA boosts your career by equipping you with sought-after skills for modern IT operations,” said Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager, Linux Foundation Education, said in a statement. “These skills position you as a proactive, problem-solving professional in an era of complex, distributed systems.”

The primary competencies covered by the OTCA certification are:

• Fundamentals of Observability 
• The OpenTelemetry API and SDK 
• The OpenTelemetry Collector 
• Maintaining and Debugging Observability Pipelines

OTCA includes 12 months to schedule and take the exam and two exam attempts, with the exam priced at $250. The certification exam is now available for purchase, and the ability to schedule the OTCA exam will begin in January 2025. The OTCA certification was built in collaboration with Honeycomb, with the participation of people from Chronosphere, Elastic, Lynxmind, F1rst Digital Services, Sicredi, DBS Bank, Accenture, Datadog and Lightstep.