PromeTheus Alerting And Monitoring (updated 1/2023)

Prometheus Alerting And Monitoring
Last updated 1/2023
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Learn and Build Your First Prometheus Alerting and Monitoring System for Your Infrastructure Today

What you’ll learn

Install Prometheus and we see it working

Build a bare bones Prometheus server from scratch, in the cloud.

Learn how to set it up as a service so that it is always running in the background

Configure it to be behind a Nginx Reverse Proxy

Configure a domain name and add SSL to ensure transport layer encryption for the user interface
Add Basic Authentication to restrict user access

Install several Node-Exporters, local and external, manage there firewall rules and compare the differences

Learn the basics of querying metrics from simple metrics, instant vectors, range vectors, functions, aggregates and sub queries

Create custom metrics from complicated queries and save them as Recording Rules

Create Alerting Rules and demonstrate Inactive, Pending and Firing states

Setup a SMTP server to send email alerts

Configure Alert Manager to Send Alerts from Prometheus

Install Grafana

Setup the Prometheus Datasource inside Grafana

Setup Prometheus Dashboards for the main Prometheus service and Node exporters

Requirements

Basic Linux Experience

All commands entered during the lectures are provided in the corresponding resources

You have the choice of using dedicated hardware, cloud or locally hosted VMs. In this course, I predominantly use an unrestricted fresh install of Ubuntu 18 in the cloud.

Description

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Install Prometheus

Lecture 2 Pointing A Domain Name

Lecture 3 Reverse Proxy Prometheus with Nginx

Lecture 4 Add SSL to Prometheus Reverse Proxy

Lecture 5 Add Basic Authentication to the Prometheus User Interface

Lecture 6 Scrape Target Basics

Lecture 7 Install an External Node Exporter

Lecture 8 Deleting a Time Series

Lecture 9 PromQL Example Queries

Lecture 10 Recording Rules

Lecture 11 Alerting Rules

Lecture 12 Install the Prometheus Alertmanager

Lecture 13 Configure Alertmanager to Send Email Alerts

Lecture 14 Install Grafana

Lecture 15 Setup the Prometheus Datasource

Lecture 16 Setup Prometheus Dashboards

Lecture 17 Finishing Up and Next Steps

Network and Systems Administrators,Infrastructure Monitoring Specialists,IT Platform Specialists,DevOps Technicians,Enthusiasts wanting a better understanding and better visibility of their IT infrastructure in the home or office,Someone who is curious and wants a better understanding of what Prometheus is and what Prometheus is good at