Prometheus is an open source, primary monitoring system for Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications with a large developer community.
How is Prometheus different from other monitoring systems?
The Nagios and Icinga2 monitoring systems included in our course palette are designed for monitoring traditional infrastructures, such as server computers, network devices, etc.
Prometheus is primarily known as a monitoring system for dynamically changing, containerized environments, but it is also suitable for monitoring traditional infrastructures.
Containerized applications present another challenge in the field of monitoring: since containers are created in large numbers depending on the load, they are then stopped within a short time, and later new containers are started again. So the environment that needs to be monitored is a rapidly changing, dynamic environment. Prometheus is designed and developed with this in mind.
What is the course about?
About Prometheus , of course . 😊 About how we can use it to monitor containerized applications in a Kubernetes cluster.
In addition to Prometheus, we also deal with the Grafana visualization system (Grafana dashboard).
We use Grafana to display (visualize) the data collected and stored by Prometheus, in other words, we use Grafana to create various graphs from the data collected by Prometheus.
Who do we recommend the course to?
For system administrators who want to monitor a Kubernetes cluster and containerized applications using Prometheus.
Required prerequisites: solid Linux command line skills and basic knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes. Completion of a Docker and Kubernetes course or knowledge of their material is therefore highly recommended.