Mastering Prometheus and Grafana: Monitoring and Alerting Essentials
Learning Path | 2 Course Series
Learn and build your first Prometheus alerting and monitoring system for your infrastructure today. Learn the fundamentals of Prometheus and Grafana for robust monitoring and alerting. Gain hands-on experience with practical projects and real-world examples. Master the tools required to effectively monitor and manage your systems. Elevate your skills in monitoring and alerting to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
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What you'll get
- 5+ Hours
- 2 Courses
- Course Completion Certificates
- One year access
- Self-paced Courses
- Technical Support
- Mobile App Access
- Case Studies
Synopsis
- Setting up Prometheus: Understand the architecture and components of Prometheus, and learn how to install, configure, and deploy Prometheus for monitoring infrastructure and applications.
- Creating Monitoring and Alerting Rules: Explore how to define and configure monitoring rules, alerts, and notifications in Prometheus to detect and respond to anomalies and performance issues effectively.
- Integrating Grafana for Visualization: Learn how to integrate Grafana with Prometheus to create custom dashboards, graphs, and visualizations for monitoring and analyzing metrics and time-series data.
- Building Monitoring Solutions: Gain practical experience by working on projects that involve setting up end-to-end monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana, including designing dashboards, creating alerts, and troubleshooting issues.
- Advanced Monitoring Techniques: Explore advanced topics such as metric instrumentation, metric types, label-based querying, and metric aggregation to enhance your monitoring capabilities.
- Scaling Prometheus and Grafana: Learn strategies for scaling Prometheus and Grafana to handle large-scale deployments and high-volume data streams effectively.
- Best Practices and Optimization: Understand best practices for optimizing Prometheus and Grafana configurations, improving query performance, and managing resources efficiently.
- Real-world Use Cases: Gain insights into real-world use cases and scenarios where Prometheus and Grafana are deployed to monitor complex systems, troubleshoot issues, and ensure optimal performance.
- Install Prometheus and we see it working
- Build a bare bones Prometheus server from scratch, in the cloud.
- Learn how to set it up as a service so that it is always running in the background
- Configure it to be behind a Nginx Reverse Proxy
- Configure a domain name and add SSL to ensure transport layer encryption for the user interface
- Add Basic Authentication to restrict user access
- Install several Node-Exporters, local and external, manage there firewall rules and compare the differences
- Learn the basics of querying metrics from simple metrics, instant vectors, range vectors, functions, aggregates and sub queries
Content
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MODULE 1: Essentials Training
Courses No. of Hours Certificates Details Prometheus: Setting up Monitoring and Alerts with Prometheus 2h 57m ✔ Project on Prometheus: Monitoring and Alerting 1h 59m ✔
Description
In this course, you will delve into the world of Prometheus, a powerful open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit widely used in modern cloud-native environments. Through comprehensive instruction and hands-on projects, you will learn how to set up, configure, and utilize Prometheus to monitor systems, collect metrics, and trigger alerts based on predefined conditions. Whether you're a beginner looking to understand the basics or an experienced professional seeking to enhance your monitoring capabilities, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to harness the full potential of Prometheus for effective monitoring and alerting in diverse environments.
In this course we will quickly build a bare bones Prometheus server from scratch. We will keep it simple and set it up on a default, unrestricted, un-customised Ubuntu. You will then be able to match what you see in the videos and copy/paste directly from my documentation and see the same result. Once you have the basic experience of seeing Prometheus work, you will be able to problem solve in a more directed manner, and apply your knowledge to other operating systems in the future. At the end of the course, you will have a basic Prometheus setup, which will be in the cloud, behind a reverse proxy, with SSL, a domain name, Basic Authentication, with several custom recording rules, several alerting rules, several node exporters local and external, an alert manager that can send emails via an external SMTP service, a Grafana install, and configured with the Prometheus Data source and several dashboards.
"Prometheus is an open-source tool used for event monitoring and alerting."
Section 1: Prometheus: Setting up Monitoring and Alerting
This section provides a foundational understanding of Prometheus, covering its installation, configuration, and setup for monitoring and alerting purposes. Participants learn about Prometheus architecture, data model, and various components such as exporters, alert managers, and Grafana integration. Practical demonstrations guide learners through the process of setting up Prometheus to monitor different types of metrics, configure alerting rules, and manage alerts effectively.
Section 2: Project on Prometheus: Monitoring and Alerting
In this hands-on project section, participants apply their knowledge gained from the previous section to create a monitoring and alerting system using Prometheus. Through step-by-step guidance, learners work on a real-world project scenario, configuring Prometheus to monitor specific metrics, defining alerting rules, and setting up notification channels. The project provides an opportunity for learners to implement Prometheus in a practical setting, reinforcing their understanding of monitoring and alerting concepts.
Overall, these sections offer a comprehensive learning experience, combining theoretical knowledge with practical application, to equip participants with the skills needed to effectively utilize Prometheus for monitoring and alerting in various environments..
Requirements
- Linux Basics: Understanding basic Linux commands and navigating the file system will be essential for working with Prometheus and Grafana.
- System Administration Knowledge: Familiarity with system administration concepts such as monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting will aid in grasping the concepts covered in the course.
- Networking Fundamentals: Having a basic understanding of networking concepts like IP addresses, ports, and protocols will be beneficial for setting up and configuring Prometheus and Grafana.
- Command-line Proficiency: Comfort with using the command-line interface (CLI) for tasks such as installing software, configuring services, and managing files will facilitate working with Prometheus and Grafana.
- Basic Understanding of Web Technologies: Knowledge of web technologies such as HTTP, HTML, and JavaScript will help in understanding how Prometheus and Grafana interact with web browsers for visualization and monitoring purposes.
- A very basic knowledge of YAML will be an add-on.
- Rest everything on Prometheus is covered in this course with line to line explanations.
Target Audience
- System Administrators: Professionals responsible for managing and maintaining IT infrastructure, servers, and services will benefit from learning how to set up and use Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting.
- DevOps Engineers: Individuals involved in the development and operations of software applications, particularly those working in DevOps teams, can enhance their skills by mastering Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability.
- Software Developers: Developers looking to gain insights into the performance and behavior of their applications in real-time can learn how to integrate Prometheus and Grafana into their development and monitoring workflows.
- IT Managers: Managers overseeing IT operations and infrastructure can benefit from understanding Prometheus and Grafana to improve system reliability, performance, and availability.
- Data Analysts: Professionals interested in analyzing and visualizing operational data for insights and decision-making can leverage Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and reporting purposes.
- Students and Enthusiasts: Individuals pursuing education or personal interest in system administration, DevOps, or IT operations can explore Prometheus and Grafana as valuable tools for monitoring and managing IT environments.
- Network and Systems Administrators
- Infrastructure Monitoring Specialists
- IT Platform Specialists
- DevOps Technicians
- Enthusiasts wanting a better understanding and better visibility of their IT infrastructure in the home or office
- Someone who is curious and wants a better understanding of what Prometheus is and what Prometheus is good at
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