Observability with Prometheus and Grafana

Who This Guide is For

This guide is designed for anyone looking to master Prometheus and build a strong foundation in modern monitoring and observability. Observability with Prometheus and Grafana is designed for both beginners and experienced professionals. A basic understanding of monitoring concepts, Linux, and networking is helpful, but not required. This guide provides practical insights, hands-on examples, and deep technical knowledge to help multiple audiences effectively monitor and optimize their infrastructure. Here are some of the roles that will benefit from this guide:

DevOps Engineers & SREs (Site Reliability Engineers):

If you’re responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems, this guide will help you implement Prometheus effectively, optimize queries, set up alerting, and integrate it with tools like Alertmanager and Grafana.

Software Engineers & Developers:

If you build applications and want to instrument your code for better visibility, this guide will walk you through Prometheus client libraries, metric types, and how to expose custom application metrics for debugging, performance tuning, and business insights.

System Administrators & IT Professionals:

If you manage servers, containers, or cloud infrastructure, this guide will show you how to monitor Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, and Docker containers using Node Exporter, Blackbox Exporter, kube-state-metrics, and more.