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Master Prometheus: Infrastructure Monitoring & Alerting with Grafana
What you will learn:
- Master the fundamentals of Prometheus from scratch with real-world examples.
- Gain proficiency in the Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for powerful data analysis.
- Explore and utilize various Prometheus exporters for comprehensive system monitoring.
- Instrument Python and Go applications to expose custom metrics for detailed insights.
- Learn to build robust alerting systems with integrations to popular notifiers.
- Create custom dashboards with Grafana to visualize your Prometheus data effectively.
- Discover service discovery, recording rules, and other advanced Prometheus concepts.
- Understand best practices and design patterns for successful DevOps monitoring.
- Transform your DevOps skills with this comprehensive Prometheus and Grafana mastery course.
Description
Unlock the power of Prometheus, the leading open-source monitoring system, and learn to build robust infrastructure monitoring and alerting solutions with Grafana. This comprehensive course guides you from the basics to advanced techniques, equipping you with the skills needed to confidently monitor and manage your DevOps infrastructure.
Dive into the world of Prometheus, exploring its core concepts, architecture, and configuration. You'll learn how to install and run Prometheus on Linux machines, understand Prometheus's metric types, and master the powerful Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) to extract valuable insights from your data.
Gain hands-on experience with Prometheus exporters, including Node Exporter, MySQL Exporter, and Blackbox Exporter, enabling you to monitor various system components and network endpoints. Discover how to instrument Python and Go applications to expose custom metrics, ensuring comprehensive visibility into your applications' performance.
We'll cover advanced topics like service discovery, recording rules, and creating robust alerting systems. Learn to integrate with popular alert notifiers like Gmail, PagerDuty, and Slack, keeping you informed about critical events.
Build stunning dashboards with Grafana, visualizing Prometheus metrics to gain deeper insights into your infrastructure. Learn best practices and design patterns for effective DevOps monitoring and alerting.
This course includes:
- Comprehensive Prometheus concepts explained from scratch with real-time implementation.
- Hands-on examples for each Prometheus concept, ensuring practical understanding.
- In-depth coverage of PromQL functions, operators, and clauses.
- Monitoring databases, Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, and network endpoints.
- Client libraries for instrumenting Python and Go applications.
- Building custom exporters for unique monitoring needs.
- Creating custom dashboards with Grafana for powerful data visualization.
- Setting up effective alerting systems with various notifiers.
- Best practices and design patterns for real-world DevOps monitoring.
Join this course and transform your DevOps skills with the power of Prometheus and Grafana. Start your journey towards mastering infrastructure monitoring and alerting today!
Curriculum
Introduction to Prometheus MasterClass
This introductory section lays the foundation for your Prometheus journey. You'll begin by understanding the course's structure, the importance of Prometheus in modern DevOps, and essential terminology. Explore the architecture of Prometheus, gaining a clear understanding of its key components and how they work together. This section includes lectures like 'Course Introduction', 'Why Prometheus', 'Terminology of Prometheus', and 'Prometheus Architecture Overview', providing you with a solid starting point.
Understanding the Inner Workings of Prometheus
Delve deeper into the core functionality of Prometheus in this section. Learn what makes Prometheus stand out as a powerful monitoring tool, exploring the different metric types used to capture system data. You'll gain insights into the structure and significance of metrics, preparing you to effectively utilize them for monitoring and analysis. This section covers lectures like 'What Makes Prometheus So Awesome' and 'Understanding Prometheus Metric Types'.
Setting Up and Configuring Your Prometheus Server
Get hands-on with setting up your own Prometheus server. This section guides you through the installation process, whether you're working on a Linux machine, a cloud environment, or even using a Digital Ocean referral link for cost-effective cloud computing. You'll explore the Prometheus user interface, delve into its default configuration, and learn how to run Prometheus in the background. This section includes lectures like 'Prometheus Installation Overview', 'Create Cloud Machine for Installation', 'Install Prometheus on Unix/Linux Machines', and 'Understand the Prometheus Default Configuration'.
Leveraging Prometheus Exporters for Monitoring
This section introduces you to the world of Prometheus exporters, essential tools for gathering data from various system components. You'll learn how to use Node Exporter to monitor Linux servers, getting insights into their CPU, memory, and disk usage. Explore the WMI Exporter for monitoring Windows systems. This section features lectures like 'Using Prometheus Exporters', 'Monitoring Linux Servers with Node Exporters', 'Demo: Install and Configure Node Exporter', and 'WMI Exporter - Windows Monitoring System'.
Monitoring Your Databases with Prometheus
Expand your monitoring capabilities to include databases. This section focuses on using Prometheus to effectively monitor MySQL databases. You'll learn how to install and configure the MySQL Exporter, collecting metrics like query execution times and database performance indicators. This section covers lectures like 'Monitoring MySQL Databases with Prometheus', 'Using MySQL Exporter', 'Reload Prometheus Configuration without Restart', and 'Demo: Installing MySQL Exporter'.
Blackbox Exporter: Monitoring Network Endpoints
Discover the Blackbox Exporter, a powerful tool for monitoring network endpoints. This section teaches you how to configure Blackbox Exporter to perform HTTP, TCP, and DNS probes, ensuring your network services are up and running. Learn how to scrape targets from Blackbox Exporter and utilize Prometheus's relabeling feature for refined data management. This section includes lectures like 'What is Blackbox Exporter', 'Download and Configure Blackbox Exporter', 'HTTP Probe Module', 'TCP Probe Module', and 'DNS Probe Module'.
Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Prometheus
In this section, you'll learn how to seamlessly integrate Prometheus into your Kubernetes environment. Explore the process of installing Prometheus within a Kubernetes cluster and access the Prometheus instance for monitoring. Gain insights into the specific metrics provided by Prometheus for Kubernetes clusters. This section features lectures like 'Using Prometheus with Kubernetes', 'Demo: Installing Prometheus in Kubernetes', and 'Explore Prometheus Kubernetes Metrics'.
Instrumentation: Exposing Application Metrics
This section delves into the art of instrumenting applications to expose custom metrics. Learn how to use client libraries to seamlessly integrate your Python and Go applications with Prometheus. You'll explore the different metric types available for capturing application performance data, ensuring comprehensive visibility into your application's health. This section includes lectures like 'Client Libraries and Metric Type', 'SetUp Python Application For Instrumentation', 'Expose Metrics using Client Libs', and 'Expose Counter Metrics'.
Instrumentation: Dockerized Applications
This section extends your knowledge of application instrumentation to include Dockerized applications. Learn how to instrument your applications within a Docker environment, creating Docker images and executing your application within containers. Gain insights into monitoring these Dockerized applications using Prometheus. This section features lectures like 'Create a Machine For Docker Application Execution', 'Adding Instrumentation in Docker Application', 'Create Docker Image and Execute Application in Container', and 'Monitor Docker Application in Prometheus'.
Instrumentation: Instrumenting GO Applications
Dive deeper into instrumenting Go applications to provide detailed metrics to Prometheus. This section provides hands-on guidance on setting up a Go application and exposing counter, gauge, summary, and histogram metrics. This section includes lectures like 'SetUp GO Application', 'Expose Counter Metric on GO App', 'Expose Gauge Metric on GO App', 'Expose Summary Metric on GO App', and 'Expose Histogram Metric on GO App'.
Making Informed Decisions: Choosing What to Instrument
This section provides valuable guidance on deciding which aspects of your system to instrument. Learn to prioritize your monitoring efforts, focusing on key performance indicators and areas that require close attention. This section features the lecture 'What to Instrument'.
Mastering Prometheus Query Language (PromQL)
Become a master of PromQL, the powerful query language used with Prometheus. This section introduces you to the datatypes, selectors, matchers, and operators available in PromQL. You'll learn how to perform complex queries, filter data, and group results using aggregations. This section covers lectures like 'Datatypes in PromQL', 'Selectors and Matchers in PromQL', 'Binary Operator', 'Groupers in PromQL', 'Aggregation Operators', and 'PromQL Functions'.
Leveraging Recording Rules for Enhanced Monitoring
This section introduces recording rules, a powerful technique for saving pre-calculated metrics from complex PromQL queries. You'll learn how to write and manage these rules, improving query efficiency and simplifying data analysis. This section covers lectures like 'What is Recording Rule', 'Reload Prometheus Config at Runtime', and 'Writing Recording Rules'.
Creating Effective Alerting Systems
This section focuses on building effective alerting systems using Prometheus. You'll learn how to write and fire alerts, understanding the importance of avoiding false alerts. You'll also explore how to add labels to alerts and set up the Alert Manager for centralized alert management. This section includes lectures like 'What is Alerting?', 'Writing and Firing the Alert', 'Avoid False Alerts in System', 'Add Labels on Alerts', and 'Installing Alert Manager'.
Integrating with Alert Notifiers
This section introduces you to integrating Prometheus with various alert notifiers, enabling real-time notifications about critical events. You'll learn how to set up Gmail as an alert notifier, sending alerts directly to your inbox. This section covers lectures like 'Adding Alert Notifier - GMAIL', 'Create GMAIL App Password', and 'Sending Alert Notification - GMAIL'.
Creating Routing Trees for Targeted Alerting
This section explores advanced alert management using routing trees. Learn how to create routing trees to direct alerts to specific recipients or teams based on defined conditions. This ensures that the right people receive the right information at the right time. This section covers lectures like 'Why do you need Routing Tree', 'Understanding Routing Tree Use-Case', 'Prepare Alerting Rules', 'Implementing the Routing Tree', 'Grouping Alerts', and 'Silencing the Alerts'.
Service Discovery for Dynamic Target Management
Discover how to leverage service discovery to dynamically manage scrape targets in Prometheus. This section focuses on using file-based service discovery, automating the process of adding and removing scrape targets. This section features the lectures 'Service Discovery Introduction' and 'File Bases Service Discovery'.
Visualizing Your Data with Grafana
This section introduces you to Grafana, a powerful tool for visualizing Prometheus metrics. You'll learn how to install and configure Grafana, connecting it to your Prometheus server. You'll create custom dashboards to visually represent Prometheus data, gaining deeper insights into your infrastructure. This section covers lectures like 'Grafana and It's Capabilities', 'Install Grafana and Configure Prometheus with Grafana', and 'Create Custom DashBoard for Prometheus Metrics'.
Bonus: Thank You & Additional Resources
This concluding section offers a final thank you and provides valuable bonus resources. It covers the lecture 'Thank You and Bonus Note'.