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title: "What this course covers | Grafana Labs"
description: "Metrics and logs for infrastructure visibility"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Course scope

**This course covers metrics and logs (not traces).**

| Telemetry   | Covered? | Level   | Why                                           |
|-------------|----------|---------|-----------------------------------------------|
| **Metrics** | Yes      | Level 1 | Infrastructure health and performance         |
| **Logs**    | Yes      | Level 1 | System events and errors                      |
| **Traces**  | No       | Level 3 | Request flow through services (future course) |

## Why no traces?

Traces answer Level 3 questions like *“Why is this specific request slow?”* That requires understanding distributed tracing, span context, and service dependencies, which is a different skill set that will be covered in future courses.

> **Looking for traces?** Sending traces to Grafana Cloud will be covered in a future Level 3 course on distributed tracing.