Prometheus and Grafana for Systems Monitoring and Alerting

In modern cloud-native environments, understanding the health and performance of your applications is critical to maintaining uptime. This course provides a clear pathway to understanding systems monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana. You will transition from a beginner to confidently implementing monitoring pipelines for diverse environments. Through detailed written explanations and structured configuration examples, you will learn how to gather metrics, analyze system behavior, and set up automated alerts that keep your systems running smoothly. What you'll learn: - Understand foundational monitoring concepts, metric types, and the pull-based architecture of Prometheus. - Write precise PromQL queries to retrieve, filter, and analyze system performance data. - Configure exporters and service discovery to automatically discover and scrape targets in cloud environments like AWS. - Design alerting rules and routing trees using Alertmanager to dispatch notifications to channels like Slack and PagerDuty. - Build visual dashboards in Grafana to represent real-time system health and performance trends. - Apply modern observability practices, including secure scraping configurations and basic OpenTelemetry integration patterns. The course begins with core definitions and architectural foundations before guiding you through step-by-step configuration files, query writing, and alert routing. You will progress from simple local setups to monitoring distributed cloud services and building custom exporters. This course is designed for beginners, system administrators, and DevOps enthusiasts looking to build a strong foundation in systems observability. No prior experience with Prometheus or Grafana is required. Start reading today to take control of your infrastructure's health and performance.