LI310: Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

Training: DevOps

Participants learn the fundamentals of monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. The course covers how Prometheus collects and processes data and how Grafana visualizes it. The focus is on administering Grafana in interaction with Prometheus. In addition, participants learn how to set up alerts based on defined criteria and configure notifications.

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Start: 2025-12-01 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-12-03 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 1.790,00 € plus VAT.

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Start: 2026-03-16 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-03-18 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 1.790,00 € plus VAT.

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Start: 2026-06-29 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-07-01 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 1.790,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

  • History of monitoring
    • Push vs. pull method
    • Advantages and disadvantages of the methods
    • Examples of monitoring systems
    • What is time series data?

  • Introduction to Prometheus
    • What is Prometheus – and what is it not?
    • Architecture
    • Structure
    • Components
    • Capacity planning
    • Use cases
    • Weaknesses and stumbling blocks

  • Installation and configuration
    • Installation of Prometheus as a Server
    • Configuration of a Prometheus Server
    • Installation of an exporter
    • Configuration of an exporter

  • Prometheus data model
    • Time series data with Prometheus
    • Metrics and labels
    • Metric types
      • Counter
      • Gauge
      • Histogram
      • Summary

  • Queries
    • PromQL
    • Promtool
    • First simple queries
    • Query: operators
    • Query: functions
    • Prometheus HTTP API

  • Visualization
    • Overview of possibilities
    • Getting started with Grafana

  • Grafana
    • Installation and configuration
    • Which backend for which use case?
    • Creating Prometheus dashboards
    • Provisioning/automation of dashboards
    • Grafana CLI

  • Exporters
    • Application monitoring
    • Jobs and instances

  • Push gateway
    • Installation
    • Push data to Prometheus

  • Recording rules
    • Introduction
    • Configure recording rules

  • Alerting
    • Alertmanager
      • Installation
      • Configuration
      • HA and Alertmanager
    • Prometheus Aaerts
      • Alerting rules
      • Maintain alerts
    • Alerting with Grafana

  • Advanced topics:
    • Service discovery
      • DNS A records
      • Kubernetes
      • Public clouds
    • Multiple Prometheus instances – high availability
      • Structure
      • Federation
      • Remote storage
    • Security
    • Multitenancy
    • Client libraries for developers
    • Advanced PromQL

Objectives:

In the course LI310 Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

  • you will learn the basics of monitoring and gain an overview of the basic concepts and architecture of Prometheus
  • you will receive an introduction to the administration of Grafana, the powerful tool for visualizing metrics and creating dashboards
  • you will learn how Grafana works with Prometheus
  • you will learn how to configure and use Prometheus to receive notifications when certain criteria are met
  • you will learn how to use dashboards, reports and other information sources to stay up to date on the status of your applications and infrastructure

Target audience:

The course LI310 Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana is targeted at

  • Linux Administrators
  • DevOps
  • Developers

Prerequisites:

To be able to follow the content and learning pace of the course LI310 Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana effectively, basic knowledge in Linux system administration is required.

Description:

In the course LI310 Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana participants learn the basics of monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. They gain insight into how Prometheus collects the necessary data and processes it internally. Grafana is introduced for data visualization.The focus here is on the administrative side of Grafana in conjunction with Prometheus. The course participants learn how they can set up alerts for specific criteria and what options are available to be notified about them.
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Price:

1.790,00 € plus VAT.

(including lunch & drinks)

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