Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

Build Prometheus ecosystems with metric-centric visualization alerting and queryingKey FeaturesIntegrate Prometheus with Alertmanager and Grafana for building a complete monitoring systemExplore PromQL Prometheus functional query language with easy-to-follow examplesLearn how to deploy Prometheus components using Kubernetes and traditional instancesBook DescriptionPrometheus is an open source monitoring system. It provides a modern time series database a robust query language several metric visualization possibilities and a reliable alerting solution for traditional and cloud-native infrastructure.This book covers the fundamental concepts of monitoring and explores Prometheus architecture its data model and how metric aggregation works. Multiple test environments are included to help explore different configuration scenarios such as the use of various exporters and integrations. You’ll delve into PromQL supported by several examples and then apply that knowledge to alerting and recording rules as well as how to test them. After that alert routing with Alertmanager and creating visualizations with Grafana is thoroughly covered. In addition this book covers several service discovery mechanisms and even provides an example of how to create your own. Finally you’ll learn about Prometheus federation cross-sharding aggregation and also long-term storage with the help of Thanos.By the end of this book you’ll be able to implement and scale Prometheus as a full monitoring system on-premises in cloud environments in standalone instances or using container orchestration with Kubernetes.What you will learnGrasp monitoring fundamentals and implement them using PrometheusDiscover how to extract metrics from common infrastructure servicesFind out how to take full advantage of PromQLDesign a highly available resilient and scalable Prometheus stackExplore the power of Kubernetes Prometheus OperatorUnderstand concepts such as federation and cross-shard aggregationUnlock seamless global views and long-term retention in cloud-native apps with ThanosWho this book is forIf you’re a software developer cloud administrator site reliability engineer DevOps enthusiast or system admin looking to set up a fail-safe monitoring and alerting system for sustaining infrastructure security and performance this book is for you. Basic networking and infrastructure monitoring knowledge will help you understand the concepts covered in this book.