Workshop: Cloud Native Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

Objectives

This workshop covers:

• The core concepts of Prometheus
• Querying Prometheus to gain insights on how your applications behave
• Building Grafana dashboards combining multiple metrics
• Defining rules to trigger alerts based on metrics and thresholds
• Instrumenting Golang code to expose built-in and custom metrics

Table of Content

• Part 1: Querying Prometheus
• Part 2: Building Grafana Dashboards
• Part 3: Alerting rules
• Part 4: Instrumenting Code

Additional resources

• Prometheus documentation
• Prometheus Blog Series:
  • Metrics and Labels
  • Metric Types
  • Exposing and collecting metrics
  • Instrumenting code in Go and Java
  • Alerting rules
• Robust Perception Blog
• Prometheus: Best Practices and Beastly Pitfalls by Julius Voltz (PromCon 2017)