Prometheus: Solution use and set-up

Learn the basics of Prometheus.
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  • Duration: 2 days
  • Regular price: On request

Course outline

Duration : 2 days

Audience

Developers, Administrators and DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

Linux system administration basics

Objectives

  • You’’ll be able to setup Prometheus collectors and alert rules
  • You’ll be able to create relevant dashboard
  • You’ll have a solid foundation on orchestration of your servers and applications

Contents

Introduction
  • TSDB
  • How Prometheus works
  • What is a metric (in Prometheus)
  • Some use cases
Collecting metrics
  • Collect system metrics with node-exporter
  • Querying Prometheus (simple requests)
  • Basic scrapping configuration
Grafana
  • Querying Prometheus
  • Creating dashbards
Different types of metrics
  • Counters and gauges
  • Charts and summaries
Setting up Prometheus
  • Re-labelling rules
  • Pre-calculation rules
Orchestrating an app
  • Prometheus-client
  • Best Practices
  • Example of orchestrating application
  • Using the black box export
Alerting
  • Simple alerting with Grafana
  • Configuring Prometheus manager
Going further
  • Federation
  • Introducing integrations
  • Common exporters

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