Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus

This course guides new Prometheus users through many of the key features, best practices, and use cases. It covers aspects such as setting up and using Prometheus, monitoring components and services, queries, alerts, and using Prometheus with Kubernetes.

This course will prepare you to use Prometheus to gain better insight into your systems and services. After the course, you will be able to define more precise and meaningful alerts.

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to Systems and Service Monitoring
• Introduction to Prometheus
• Installing and Setting Up Prometheus
• Basic Querying
• Dashboarding
• Monitoring Host Metrics
• Monitoring Container Metrics
• Instrumenting Code
• Building Exporters
• Advanced Querying
• Relabeling
• Service Discovery
• Blackbox Monitoring
• Pushing Data
• Alerting
• Making Prometheus Highly Available
• Recording Rules
• Scaling Prometheus Deployments
• Prometheus and Kubernetes
• Local Storage
• Remote Storage Integrations
• Transitioning From and Integrating with Other Monitoring Systems
• Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus

This course is aimed at technical experts who have basic experience in Linux/Unix system administration and some development experience in Go and/or Python.

Experience Level: Intermediate

To get the most out of this course, you should have the following prerequisites:

• Basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration
• Some knowledge and/or development experience in Go and Python
• Some experience with Kubernetes

Lab Info

To successfully complete the lab exercises in this course, you will need access to a Linux server or a Linux desktop/laptop. You will also need access to a public cloud provider or VirtualBox on your computer. Detailed instructions for setting up your lab environment can be found in the course.
If you are using a cloud provider such as GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, charges may apply if you exceed the original credit allotted by the cloud provider or if the cloud provider's terms change.