Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus
Prometheus is a monitoring system and time series database that is especially well-suited for monitoring dynamic cloud environments. Prometheus allows you to gain better insight into your systems and services and define more precise and meaningful alerts.
Schedule
This 3-day course leads new Prometheus users through many of its major features, best practices, and use cases. Course participants are expected to have basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration, as well as some development experience in Go and/or Python.
Target Audience
Basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration Familiarity with common shell commands, such as ls, cd, curl, etc. Some knowledge and/or development experience in Go and Python Some experience working with Kubernetes.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will have an understanding of:
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Prometheus architecture
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Setting up and using Prometheus
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Monitoring core system components and services
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Basic and advanced querying
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Creating dashboards
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Instrumenting services and writing third-party integrations
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Alerting
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Using Prometheus with Kubernetes
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Advanced operational aspects