Comprehensive Monitoring with Prometheus

Skillsoft issued completion badges are earned based on viewing the percentage required or receiving a passing score when assessment is required. Prometheus is a widely used open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, essential for site reliability engineers. In this course, explore Prometheus' features, data models, characteristics and components, basic configuration, and metric types. Next, learn about Prometheus jobs and instances, the internal label structure, key considerations for consoles and dashboards, and long-term storage options. Finally, examine storage and performance optimization, scaling monitoring in large deployments, strategies for scaling Prometheus effectively, and how to download, install, and configure Prometheus to always run in the background at boot time. After completing this course, you will be able to install Prometheus, leverage advanced monitoring features, and create dynamic and interactive dashboards in Grafana.