Event Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus

Description

Prometheus is a cross-platform monitoring tool that lets you collect metrics from servers, containers, and applications and work with them all in the same way. In this course, Getting Started with Prometheus, you'll learn why it's such a popular approach to monitoring and how you can start bringing it into your organization. First, you'll learn about the architecture of Prometheus and how it uses a pull model to collect metrics from many targets. Then, you'll explore how to produce metrics from Linux and Windows servers using an exporter utility and from applications using a client library, and how to configure Prometheus to fetch those metrics. Finally, you'll discover the query language PromQL, how you can use it to track the changes in metrics over time, and visualize all the metrics in a dashboard. When you've finished with the course, you’ll have the basic skills and knowledge of Prometheus needed to run a trial and evaluate it for your organization.

Description

Leveraging existing technology can save you time and help you focus resources on the things that bring the most value to your organization. In this course, Monitoring Key Systems with Prometheus Exporters, you’ll learn how to leverage exporters to gather metrics into Prometheus. First, you’ll explore the exporter ecosystem and the Node exporter. Next, you’ll discover how to monitor database servers and network endpoints. Finally, you’ll learn how to use Prometheus to monitor a Kubernetes cluster. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Prometheus Exporters needed to pull metrics from multiple key systems into your Prometheus monitoring solution.

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It’s great to have monitoring set up, but how can you keep alerts meaningful? Too many and people start to ignore them - too few and you may miss things that need to be fixed. In this course, Alerting on Issues with Prometheus Alertmanager, you’ll learn to manage alerts in a way that makes sense for your situation. First, you’ll explore alerting principles and set up the Alertmanager application. Next, you’ll discover receivers and how to use them to send alerts through different channels like email and instant messaging. Finally, you’ll learn how to effectively manage your alerts with features like grouping related alerts and silencing duplicates. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of alerting needed to configure Alertmanager in a way that makes sense for your situation and adds value to your organization.

Description

Applications need to provide a metrics API for Prometheus to read, which contains data on how hard the app is working and what it's actually doing. In this course, Instrumenting Applications with Metrics for Prometheus, you'll learn how to set that up in four major languages - Java, Go, Node.js, and .NET.

First, you'll see how easy it is to add Prometheus support using a client library. Next, you'll learn how to record the custom metrics that are relevant to your apps. Then, you'll see how to integrate monitoring with batch processing jobs. Finally, you'll learn how to collect metrics in Prometheus from distributed components and view them in a Grafana dashboard.

When you're finished with the course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to add monitoring to your own applications.