Prometheus | The Complete Hands-On for Monitoring & Alerting

Unlock the power of Prometheus for robust event monitoring and proactive system alerting! This comprehensive course dives deep into Prometheus, the leading open-source solution and a CNCF Top-Level Project, revolutionizing how modern systems are monitored.

What will you learn? Get ready for a thorough exploration of Prometheus concepts, meticulously explained from the fundamentals to advanced techniques, all reinforced with practical, hands-on examples. We'll cover every detail, even those often overlooked in the official documentation.

• Master Core Concepts: Understand the theoretical foundations of Prometheus followed by practical, runnable examples.
• Explore Technicalities: Delve into the world of Prometheus exporters (both official and third-party), and gain expertise in using PromQL – including Functions, Operators, and Clauses – for powerful querying.
• Application Instrumentation: Learn to instrument your Python or Go applications to expose custom metrics using dedicated client libraries.
• Service Discovery: Dynamically manage your scrape targets with built-in Service Discovery.
• Recording Rules: Implement Recording Rules for efficient metric aggregation.
• Cloud Monitoring: Effectively monitor Amazon Cloud (AWS) environments with Prometheus.
• Alerting Strategies: Design and implement an end-to-end Routing Tree for Alerting systems.
• Custom Exporters: Create your own Custom Exporters to monitor unique aspects of your infrastructure.
• Alert Notifications: Integrate with popular Alert Notifiers like Gmail, PagerDuty, and Slack.
• Pushgateway Integration: Learn how to scrape metrics from batch jobs using the Pushgateway.
• Real-Time Monitoring Design: Build a complete monitoring & alerting design pattern through a real-world case study using Prometheus.
• Data Visualization: Create insightful dashboards with GRAFANA to visualize your metrics.
• DevOps Best Practices: Discover best practices and do's & don'ts for real-time monitoring in DevOps projects.

This course provides you with the confidence to tackle any Prometheus project.

Bonus:

• Dedicated Support: Get your questions answered quickly with our active Q&A.
• Resources Included: Access all Prometheus code and resources used in the lectures. We'll be continuously updating the course with new Prometheus components.