Elastic Certified Observability Engineer Preparation Details
Preparing for the Elastic Certified Observability Engineer exam? This study guide organizes every exam objective with official Elastic documentation. Use it to master Heartbeat, Elastic Agent, APM, ingest pipelines, machine learning, and alerting. You can also explore more Elastic certification study guides on the Elastic certification category to keep building your skills.
Elastic Certified Observability Engineer Materials
| Coursera | Observability Engineering: Metrics, Logs, and Traces |
| Udemy | Elastic Observability Engineer Practice + Exam Q [2026] |
Uptime
Configure and run Heartbeat to determine the uptime of a process or service
Use Heartbeat to determine if a service is reachable via ICMP, TCP or HTTP
Configure lightweight monitors
Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
Use the Uptime app in Kibana to monitor the uptime and availability of a service
Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
Inspect uptime duration anomalies
Metrics
Install the Elastic Agent to collect metrics
Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
Get started with system metrics
Enable and configure integrations to collect the metrics of a specific service
Add an integration to an Elastic Agent policy
Get started with system metrics
Tutorial: Observe your nginx instances
Tutorial: Observe your Kubernetes deployments
Use the Metrics app in Kibana to analyze and answer questions about metrics collected in Elasticsearch
Analyze infrastructure and host metrics
View infrastructure metrics by resource type
Explore metrics data with Discover in Kibana
Use the Metrics app to enable and analyze the predefined machine learning jobs
View infrastructure metrics by resource type
Logging
Install the Elastic Agent to collect logs
Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
Send any log file using Elastic Agent
Enable and configure integrations to collect the logs from a specific service
Add an integration to an Elastic Agent policy
Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
Tutorial: Observe your nginx instances
Enable and configure integrations to tail a given custom log file
Send any log file using Elastic Agent
Add an integration to an Elastic Agent policy
Use the Logs app in Kibana to analyze and answer questions about log events collected in Elasticsearch
Run a pattern analysis on log data
Use the Logs app to enable and analyze the predefined machine learning jobs
APM
Use the APM app in Kibana to analyze and answer questions about APM data collected in Elasticsearch
Get started with traces and APM
Use the Real Experience app in Kibana to analyze and answer questions about RUM data collected in Elasticsearch
Create and upload source maps (RUM)
Edit and configure the APM integration
Switch to the Elastic APM integration
Structuring and Processing Data
Use Kibana to edit or define an ingest node pipeline
Transform data with custom ingest pipelines
Parse and route logs using ingest pipelines
Configure the custom logs integration to use an ingest pipeline
Transform data with custom ingest pipelines
Send any log file using Elastic Agent
Define ingest node pipelines that use the various processors, including (but not limited to) append, convert, date, dissect, dot expander, geoip, grok, fail, json, remove, rename, set, and split
Working with Observability Data
Find anomalies in Observability data using the predefined machine learning jobs in Kibana
Inspect uptime duration anomalies
Integrate with Machine Learning
Define a machine learning job in Kibana on Observability data
Define or edit an Index Lifecycle Management policy for indices
Create an index lifecycle management policy in Elasticsearch
Define an alert using Kibana Alerts
Create dashboards that use visualizations based on Observability data
Create a dashboard from the Kibana UI
Wrapping Up Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
This Elastic Certified Observability Engineer study guide covered uptime, metrics, logging, APM, data processing, and observability data analysis with official Elastic documentation. Work through every link hands-on, since the exam is performance-based, and you will be ready. You can also explore more Elastic certification study guides on the Elastic certification category to keep building your skills. Have a question or tip? Leave a comment below.
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