Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241)

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Training Course

See everything, miss nothing—Prometheus gives you the edge for the roles shaping tomorrow’s infrastructure.

The course, along with real-world experience and study, will provide the skills and knowledge also tested by the Linux Foundation’s Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam.

You have three ways to purchase!

1. Course only – $99
2. Interested in PCA? Bundle with a THRIVE-ONE Annual Subscription (includes LFS241 + unlimited access to all e-Learning courses, SkillCreds, and premium Microlearning content) – $495
3. Course + Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) certification exam – $299

Who Is It For

Built for DevOps engineers, SREs, and system admins ready to level up observability skills and get Prometheus-ready for high-impact roles in modern, cloud-native environments.

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What You’ll Learn

Walk away knowing how to monitor real-world systems with Prometheus—track containers, catch issues early, use service discovery, and build production-grade observability into your Kubernetes stack.

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What It Prepares You For

Prepare for real-world observability challenges—whether you're deploying at scale, building dashboards, or setting alerts. This course, along with real-world experience and study, will provide the skills and knowledge also tested by the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam.

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Course Outline

Chapter 1. Course Introduction

Chapter 2. Introduction to Observability

Chapter 3. Introduction to Prometheus

Chapter 4. Installing and Setting Up Prometheus

Chapter 5. Basic Querying

Chapter 6. Dashboarding

Chapter 7. Monitoring Host Metrics

Chapter 8. Monitoring Container Metrics

Chapter 9. Instrumenting Code

Chapter 10. Building Exporters

Chapter 11. Advanced Querying

Chapter 12. Relabeling

Chapter 13. Service Discovery

Chapter 14. Blackbox Monitoring

Chapter 15. Pushing Data

Chapter 16. Alerting

Chapter 17. Making Prometheus Highly Available

Chapter 18. Recording Rules

Chapter 19. Scaling Prometheus Deployments

Chapter 20. Local Storage

Chapter 21. Remote Storage Integrations

Chapter 22. Transitioning From and Integration with Other Monitoring Systems

Chapter 23. Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus

Chapter 24. Prometheus and Kubernetes

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, you should have:

Basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration
Familiarity with common shell commands, such as ls, cd, curl, etc.
Some knowledge and/or development experience in Go and Python
Experience with running containers and building container images with Docker
Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts

Lab Info

To successfully complete the lab exercises in this course, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Detailed instructions to set up your lab environment are provided in the course.

If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider, or if the cloud provider’s terms and conditions change.

Reviews

Aug 2024

The material covers many aspects of Prometheus in reasonable depth, complemented by the lab exercises.

Mar 2024

I really liked that it has labs and links to the documentation of the technologies covered in the course.

Feb 2024

I liked the entire course, especially the practical part.

Jan 2024

Practical, thorough, and well-organized.

Sep 2023

Easy to follow commands and tutorials.

Aug 2023