In this course, 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 course, 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