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Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)

Course outline

5 days

Duration

5 days

Outline

Observability Concepts

  • Metrics
  • Understand logs and events
  • Tracing and Spans
  • Push vs Pull
  • Service Discovery
  • Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs

Prometheus Fundamentals

  • System Architecture
  • Configuration and Scraping
  • Understanding Prometheus Limitations
  • Data Model and Labels
  • Exposition Format

PromQL

  • Selecting Data
  • Rates and Derivatives
  • Aggregating over time
  • Aggregating over dimensions
  • Binary operators
  • Histograms
  • Timestamp Metrics

Instrumentation and Exporters

  • Client Libraries
  • Instrumentation
  • Exporters
  • Structuring and naming metrics

Alerting & Dashboarding

  • Dashboarding basics
  • Configuring Alerting rules
  • Understand and Use Alertmanager
  • Alerting basics (when, what, and why)

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.