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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach. This book will be your practical guide to setup Prometheus on your cloud, virtual machine, container, and server ecosystem.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

14h44m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you’re a software developer, cloud administrator, site reliability engineer, DevOps enthusiast or system admin looking to set up a fail-safe monitoring and alerting system for sustaining infrastructure security and performance, this book is for you. Basic networking and infrastructure monitoring knowledge will help you understand the concepts covered in this book.

Book content

chapters 14h44m total length

Monitoring Fundamentals

An Overview of the Prometheus Ecosystem

Setting Up a Test Environment

Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals

Running a Prometheus Server

Exporters and Integrations

Prometheus Query Language - PromQL

Troubleshooting and Validation

Defining Alerting and Recording Rules

Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards

Understanding and Extending Alertmanager

Choosing the Right Service Discovery

Scaling and Federating Prometheus

Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus

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