Master DevOps Monitoring with Prometheus

Complete Prometheus Monitoring guide. Master monitoring theory, instrumentation, metrics exporters, alerting and more

Created by: Brendon Palmer
DevOps Consultant, Solutions Architect, 8x AWS Certified

What Will I Learn?

• Gain insight on Theoretical Principles in Monitoring.
• Learn how to install and configure a Prometheus Server.
• Instrument web applications to expose Prometheus metrics.
• Monitor a wide range of Hosts, Applications, and Services with Exporters
• Push metrics to a pull-based monitoring solution
• Learn to implement several Service Discovery solutions within your environment
• Understand and construct complex queries with PromQL
• Issue complex alerts to multiple end-points like Slack and PagerDuty.
• Supplement your time-series metrics with fancy Dashboards.

Requirements

• A Linux Virtual Machine with at least 1 CPU core and 2GB of RAM.
• A workstation to follow along with installations and configurations.
• A basic understanding of Linux OS (SSH, navigating through a terminal, etc.).
• An intermediate level understanding of Docker and Docker Compose.
• A basic understanding of networking concepts (IPs, ports, etc.).

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to gain insight into system performances and trends.
• DevOps Engineers who wish to stay ahead of the curb with a well-supported monitoring solution.