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Prometheus and Grafana : Monitoring applications and system components

Monitor systems and applications with Prometheus and Grafana

Knowing that something is wrong after a crash is already too late. Effective monitoring allows you to anticipate, detect, and alert before an incident becomes critical. Prometheus and Grafana form an essential duo for monitoring applications and infrastructure. This training covers installation, configuration, metrics collection, alert creation, and the visualization of dashboards tailored to a production environment.

Is it for you ?

System administrators or developers

Prerequisite

None.

What You'll Walk Away With

  • Implement a monitoring infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana
  • Create relevant alerting rules and configure automated notifications
  • Design clear and useful dashboards for tracking in a production environment

Training content

1 Introduction

  • Presentation of the required architecture
  • Use cases
  • The components of a Prometheus stack

2 Installation and configuration of components

  • Installation and configuration of Prometheus
  • Installation and configuration of Alertmanager
  • Installation and configuration of PushGateway
  • Installing and configuring Node Exporter
  • Configuring information retrieval
  • Deploying additional storage

3 Data

  • Working with data
  • Query logic
  • Data visualization in Prometheus
  • Relabeling
  • Using relabeling

4 Rules and notifications

  • Rules in Prometheus
  • Creating recording rules
  • Creating alert rules
  • The notification workflow
  • Configuring notification delivery via Alertmanager

5 Grafana – Master data visualization with dashboards

6 Introduction

  • Overview of the required architecture
  • Overview of Grafana
  • Installing and configuring Grafana
  • Configuring external authentication

7 Main screens

  • Instance, organizations, and users
  • Configuring user preferences
  • Adding data sources
  • Data exploration
  • Alerts

8 Dashboards

  • Organization and import
  • General configuration
  • Links
  • Sharing and exporting
  • Rows and visualization
  • Creating your first visualizations
  • Versioning
  • Variables
  • Creating and using variables
  • Repetitions
  • The visualization library
  • Configuring dashboard rotations

9 Supplementary book

This module offers you access to digital course materials.

Prometheus and Grafana – Monitor your applications and system components (2nd edition)

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Duration
4.5 hours
Regular fee
$250
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