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Working with Prometheus and Grafana

Course Summary

The Working with Prometheus and Grafana training course allows particpants to gain a high level understanding of how to use Prometheus for monitoring and Grafana for data visualization.

The course begins with particpants learning about monitoring systems and applications using Prometheus. Next, the course will cover Prometheus use and alerts. The course concludes with participants learning about visualizing data using Grafana.

Purpose
Learn to use Prometheus for monitoring and alerting and Grafana for data visualization
Audience
Students wanting to learn more about monitoring, alerting and use of Prometheus and data visualization using Grafana
Role
Software Developer | System Administrator
Skill Level
Intermediate
Style
Lecture | Hands-on Activities | Labs
Duration
2 Days
Related Technologies
Grafana | Prometheus | DevOps

 

Learning Objectives
  • Evaluate roles of Prometheus and Grafana in a Monitoring System
  • Understand how metrics are gathered and stored in Prometheus
  • Experience querying metrics and creating dashboards with Grafana

What You'll Learn:

In the Working with Prometheus and Grafana training course, you'll learn:

Prometheus Overview and Architecture

Prometheus Installation & Configuration

Monitoring

  • Intro to Monitoring Best Practices
    • white-box vs blackbox metrics
    • Push vs Pull data collection
    • SLIs and SLOs
  • Metrics
    • Prometheus data model
    • Metric types
    • Labels
  • System and platform monitoring with Prometheus
    • Jobs and Instances
    • Service Discovery
  • Application Monitoring
    • Client Libraries
  • Querying (PromQL)

Alerting

  • Ticketing vs. Alerting
  • Writing Alerting rules

Operating Prometheus

  • Security
  • Integrations

Visualizing Your Data (with Grafana)

  • Installing Grafana
  • Configuring Prometheus as a data source
  • Creating Dashboards
    • The 4 golden signals
    • Drill down style dashboards

Additional Features Overview

  • Decoupled Remote Storage (for long term archival)
  • HA Prometheus
  • Service Discovery Plugins
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Real-World Content

Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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Expert Practitioners

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Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
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