Introduction to Prometheus

In this lesson, we take a look at the Tsar of monitoring tools - Prometheus. Prometheus is the second hosted project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, right next to the container orchestrating software - Kubernetes. Prometheus is an open-sourced systems monitoring and alerting toolkit with additional capabilities in service discovery.

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Learning Objectives

• Understand and define the Prometheus monitoring tool
• Learn the core features of the tool
• Breakdown and understand the core components of the service
• Learn how to set up node exporters and a Prometheus monitor

Intended Audience

• DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and cloud engineers
• Anyone looking to up their monitoring expertise with an open-source monitoring tool

Prerequisite(s)

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have some familiarity with monitoring tools. Experience using a Terminal, Git, Bash, or Shell would be beneficial but not essential. 

Accompanying Repository

https://github.com/cloudacademy/devops-intro-to-prometheus