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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Prometheus and Grafana for Beginners: From Zero to Monitoring: Learn Metrics, PromQL, Dashboards, Alerting, and Kubernetes Observability Step by Step

Prometheus and Grafana for Beginners: From Zero to Monitoring: Learn Metrics, PromQL, Dashboards, Alerting, and Kubernetes Observability Step by Step

Vertex, Zane

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General ComputersSystem Administration

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ISBN13: 9798171268794
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.67 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Master Prometheus and Grafana from the Ground Up-Even With Zero Prior Monitoring Experience!

Modern cloud-native systems, microservices, and Kubernetes clusters rarely fail quietly. When applications slow down, memory leaks develop, or workloads restart unexpectedly, simply knowing that a server is online is no longer enough. You need meaningful metrics, visualization, alerting, and observability.

Whether you're a system administrator, DevOps engineer, cloud engineer, developer, or someone completely new to monitoring, this book takes you from foundational concepts to building a functional observability system.

What You Will Learn

  • Monitoring and Observability Fundamentals - Understand metrics, time-series data, labels, logs, traces, and the role Prometheus and Grafana play in modern observability.
  • Prometheus Setup and Configuration - Learn how to install Prometheus, work with prometheus.yml, configure scrape targets, and use Node Exporter to monitor CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, and network activity.
  • PromQL from the Ground Up - Learn label filtering, regex matching, arithmetic operators, aggregations such as sum, avg, min, max, and count, and how to work correctly with counters, gauges, and histograms.
  • Grafana Dashboards and Visualization - Connect Grafana to Prometheus, explore metrics, create visualization panels, organize dashboards, and use variables to turn raw monitoring data into useful operational insight.
  • Alerting and Alertmanager - Create effective alerting rules, understand alert states, configure Alertmanager, route notifications, and reduce unnecessary alert noise and alert fatigue.
  • Application and Kubernetes Monitoring - Monitor applications, Kubernetes nodes, pods, containers, and workloads using Prometheus service discovery, exporters, and kube-state-metrics.
  • Production Monitoring Practices - Learn recording rules, monitoring security, performance optimization, scalable storage strategies, and systematic troubleshooting of monitoring pipelines.

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