We are thrilled to announce the 2025 edition of the OCI Observability Professional certification. This certification caters to a wide range of roles such as Cloud Architects, Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), DevOps/SecOps Engineers, Developers and Cloud Administrators.

 

Why Observability Matters?

Imagine you are troubleshooting a critical issue—an application running in the cloud environment suddenly slows down, and users are complaining about performance. Traditional monitoring might show high CPU usage or increased latency, but it doesn’t explain why the issue is happening.

Now, consider another scenario: A customer reports being charged for an online purchase, but the order never appears in the system. Your monitoring dashboard shows no immediate errors, leaving you with a mystery—where did the transaction go?

Situations like these are common in cloud environments, where performance slowdowns, unexplained system crashes, intermittent network failures, sudden traffic spikes, or even misconfigured cloud resources impacting availability can occur. Additionally, designing a cloud environment with robust security measures is essential to prevent vulnerabilities that could compromise system integrity. But these are just a few examples—there are many different types of challenges that organizations face in maintaining reliable and secure cloud environment.

This is where observability becomes essential. By the integration of logs, metrics and traces, you can pinpoint the exact bottleneck, whether it’s a database query taking too long, a failing API call, or a sudden network latency spike. Observability provides deep visibility into request flows and system dependencies, allowing you to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in a much faster way.

 

OCI Observability & Management Platform

OCI Observability & Management (O&M) is a platform that provides a comprehensive suite of cloud services to address these challenges. The platform enables you to monitor, manage and analyze infrastructure and applications with full-stack visibility, prebuilt analytics, and automation capabilities.

The OCI 2025 Observability Professional Certification is designed to equip learners with a strong understanding on the core services part of the O&M platform, including:

OCI Observability and Management services

This integrated platform aggregates all relevant data across the cloud stack, with capabilities of holistic analysis, machine learning driven operational intelligence etc.

 

What’s New?

The OCI 2025 Observability Certification has been refined to focus exclusively on key observability services, ensuring a more streamlined learning experience. Below are some of key updates:

  • Optimized course structure – The course content has been trimmed to focus on core OCI Observability services, making learning more efficient and targeted.
  • Updated module on OCI Stack Monitoring – new set of lessons to cover full-stack application observability.
  • Expanded Logging Analytics content – new lessons include Kubernetes log solution for monitoring containerized environments.
  • Updated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) content – updated lessons on Data Sources and Vantage Points.
  • Enhanced Practice Exam – includes an increased number of practice questions (total 50), helping candidates pass the final exam.

 

Certification Details

The OCI 2025 Observability Professional Certification exam assesses learners’ understanding of these topics and their ability to design and implement them. Here is a breakdown of the exam objectives:

Certification Objectives

Successfully completing this course and passing the certification exam will empower you with the skills and knowledge to efficiently master OCI Observability services and apply them effectively in real-world cloud environments. Furthermore, you will obtain a prestigious credential, underscoring their expertise in this domain.

Our integrated learning platform offers an immersive experience, encompassing video courses, skill checks, exam preparations, practice exams, online certification exams, credentials, and more.

 

Certification Exam

The certification exam format remains consistent with previous years, maintaining a structured approach to assess your skills. Here’s what to expect:

Certification Format

 

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This certification course and exam would have not been possible without the help of a great group of Oracle University domain experts and OCI Product Management team. The following experts contributed to this project:

Subject Matter experts and instructors (Tijo Thomas, David Mills, Kumar Varun, Nicholas Cusato, Yutaka Takatsu, Aaron Rimel), Product Management (Kathryn Jennings), Program Management (Kishore S.M), Studio (Deepak Modi, Selvaraj Natarajan, Shankar Ghatwar, Vidyashree RS), Graphics (Elise Thomas, Kavya Bellur), Publishing (Pavithran Adka, Srividya Rameshkumar), and Certification (Shafi Ahmed, Geetha Lobo, Mike Randall)

Thank you for reading, and good luck with the certification exam!