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DevOps Troubleshooting: Using Monitoring and Logging
In this lab, you’ll practice your monitoring and logging skills. When you’re finished, you’ll have the required knowledge to set-up metrics, log collection and alerting for your workloads.
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Monitor Workloads with Prometheus and Grafana
You will configure Prometheus to scrape metrics from your server, and you will create a Grafana dashboard to visualize CPU and memory usage. You will also configure an alert rule in Prometheus for high CPU usage.
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Implement Logging Using the ELK Stack
Using Logstash, you will index web server logs to Elasticsearch, and create a Kibana dashboard to visualize the log data.
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Set up Monitoring and Logging for Jenkins
You will expose Jenkins metrics and logs and then use Grafana and Kibana to visualize the CD/CI data. You will also configure Prometheus alerts to trigger when a pipeline fails.
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Integrate Monitoring and Logging into DevOps Pipelines
To ensure all the applications within your systems have enough data for you to identify issues in a timely manner and be able to troubleshoot them, you will integrate monitoring and logging as part of your CI/CD pipelines.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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