Prometheus Training and Certification in Cork, Ireland

This training on Prometheus covers the fundamentals of monitoring and observability using Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit. Participants will learn installation, configuration, metric collection, querying with PromQL, alerting, and integration with Grafana for visualization. This course is designed for DevOps engineers, SREs, and system administrators looking to build a scalable monitoring solution.

Prometheus Fundamentals & Metrics Collection

• Module 1: Introduction to Prometheus
  • Overview of Prometheus architecture
  • Understanding time-series data and metrics
  • Use cases of Prometheus in monitoring
• Module 2: Installing & Configuring Prometheus
  • Setting up Prometheus on Linux/Docker/Kubernetes
  • Configuration basics: Prometheus.yml
  • Scraping targets and service discovery
• Module 3: Working with Metrics
  • Types of metrics (Counters, Gauges, Histograms, Summaries)
  • Exporting metrics from applications
  • Using Node Exporter for system monitoring

PromQL, Alerting, and Visualization

• Module 4: Querying with PromQL
  • Basic PromQL syntax and functions
  • Aggregation and filtering queries
  • Advanced querying techniques for monitoring
• Module 5: Alerting with Alertmanager
  • Setting up alert rules in Prometheus
  • Configuring Alertmanager for notifications (Slack, Email, etc.)
  • Handling alert silencing and deduplication
• Module 6: Visualizing Metrics with Grafana
  • Integrating Prometheus with Grafana
  • Creating dashboards for system and application monitoring
  • Best practices for effective visualization
• Hands-On Labs