May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
Overview
In "Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus", you'll master how to use Prometheus for monitoring and scaling infrastructure. Through hands-on examples and comprehensive tutorials, discover Prometheus's capabilities including its powerful query language PromQL, its integration with Grafana and Alertmanager, and its deployment on cloud and containerized environments.
What this Book will help me do
- Understand the architecture and setup of Prometheus for robust monitoring.
- Effectively write PromQL queries to analyze infrastructure performance.
- Configure alerting with Alertmanager and visualize metrics with Grafana.
- Implement and scale Prometheus in various environments including Kubernetes.
- Apply best practices in monitoring with advanced techniques like federation and sharding.
Author(s)
Joel Bastos and Pedro Araújo are seasoned experts in infrastructure monitoring with extensive experience in leveraging Prometheus for both small-scale and large-scale deployments. Joel and Pedro are passionate about openly sharing their knowledge, making complex concepts approachable and actionable for readers. They have a long-standing commitment to the DevOps community and bring their practical expertise to this book.
Who is it for?
This book is aimed at software developers, DevOps professionals, and system administrators who want to enhance their knowledge of infrastructure monitoring. If you aim to build a fail-safe, scalable monitoring solution, this book will guide you through. No prior experience with Prometheus is needed, but familiarity with networking and general infrastructure concepts will be beneficial.
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