> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs-xcor.paloaltonetworks.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Academy

> Self-paced training on Chronosphere Observability Platform and Telemetry Pipeline, with links to related product documentation.

XCOR Academy offers self-paced courses on observability workflows, platform
features, and the Telemetry Pipeline. Open a course summary on this site, then continue
in [XCOR Academy](https://learn.chronosphere.io/) for the full lab or video.

Use product documentation for reference material; use XCOR Academy when you want a guided
path through a topic.

## Course tracks

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  <Card horizontal color="#28a561" icon="layout-dashboard" title="Introduction to Observability Platform" href="/academy/courses/introduction-to-observability-platform">
    <p>Platform track: onboarding, dashboards, monitors, incident response, Lens, SLOs, and Terraform.</p>
  </Card>

  <Card horizontal color="#28a561" icon="chart-line" title="Introduction to PromQL" href="/academy/courses/introduction-to-promql">
    <p>Metrics track: PromQL fundamentals, exploring and controlling metrics, sparse metrics, and query optimization.</p>
  </Card>

  <Card horizontal color="#28a561" icon="file-text" title="Exploring Logs" href="/academy/courses/exploring-logs">
    <p>Logs track: log querying and visualizations, advanced query labs, and logging control plane features.</p>
  </Card>

  <Card horizontal color="#28a561" icon="route" title="Exploring Traces" href="/academy/courses/exploring-traces">
    <p>Traces track: distributed tracing in the platform and trace datasets, behaviors, and sampling.</p>
  </Card>

  <Card horizontal color="#FA582D" icon="workflow" title="Telemetry Pipeline" href="/academy/courses/chronosphere-telemetry-pipeline">
    <p>Pipeline track: collect telemetry from sources, transform it, and route it to destinations.</p>
  </Card>
</Columns>

## Take courses online

<Card title="Browse all courses in XCOR Academy" color="#28a561" href="https://learn.chronosphere.io/" icon="graduation-cap" horizontal>
  <p>Open the full course catalog and sign in to take labs in XCOR Academy.</p>
</Card>


## Related topics

- [Telemetry Pipeline](/academy/courses/chronosphere-telemetry-pipeline.md)
- [Controlling Traces](/academy/courses/controlling-traces.md)
- [Exploring Logs](/academy/courses/exploring-logs.md)
- [Controlling Metrics](/academy/courses/controlling-metrics.md)
- [Controlling Logs](/academy/courses/controlling-logs.md)


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