Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241) Course Overview
The 'Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241)' course equips IT professionals, system administrators, and DevOps engineers with essential skills to effectively monitor and manage system performance. By mastering Prometheus, participants will enhance their ability to ensure reliability, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resources, making it a vital asset in today's data-driven environments.
Course outline & what you'll learn
- Importance of monitoring in modern applications
Overview of metrics and logs
- Installation and setup of Prometheus
- Understanding Prometheus architecture
- Prometheus data model
- Types of metrics: counters, gauges, histograms, and summaries
- Introduction to PromQL
- Writing basic queries
- Advanced query examples
Overview of exporters
- Instrumenting applications for monitoring
- Using existing exporters
- Setting up alerting rules
- Alert manager overview
- Configuring notification channels
- Introduction to Grafana
- Building dashboards
- Integrating Prometheus with Grafana
- Designing monitoring strategies
- Managing and scaling your monitoring setup
Examples of Prometheus in production
- Lessons learned from monitoring environments
- Recap of key concepts
- Resources for further learning and community involvement
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