HRDC Reg No: 10001512653
Duration: 4 Days (28 hours)
Course Overview
This 4-day course provides an in-depth understanding of Grafana and Prometheus as a monitoring stack for IT infrastructure. Participants will gain hands-on experience with Prometheus for collecting time-series data and Grafana for visualization and analysis. By the end of this course, participants will be capable of building and managing monitoring systems, creating dynamic dashboards, setting up alerts, and integrating Prometheus with various data sources.
Who Should Attend?
- DevOps Engineers – Monitor and manage IT infrastructure
- System Administrators – Gain insights into server and application performance
- Cloud Engineers – Monitor cloud-based systems effectively
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) – Ensure system reliability and uptime
Why Choose This Course?
This HRDC-claimable course (HRDC Reg. No: 10001512653) offers hands-on training in real-world monitoring and alerting solutions, using Prometheus and Grafana, making it ideal for professionals looking to optimize IT infrastructure monitoring.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Install and configure Grafana and Prometheus
Use Grafana to create, customize, and manage dynamic dashboards
Configure Prometheus for monitoring applications, nodes, and services
Write PromQL queries for advanced data analysis
Set up alerting channels and create actionable alerts
Integrate Prometheus with Grafana for seamless visualization
Understand service discovery and scraping in Prometheus
Use InfluxDB as a time-series database and integrate it with Grafana
Prerequisites
- Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems
Lab Setup
- System Requirements:
- Linux-based systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, or similar)
- Minimum 8 GB RAM & 4 CPU cores per machine
- Software Requirements:
- Grafana & Prometheus installed
- Node Exporters & Alert Manager configured for Prometheus
- InfluxDB for time-series data
- Network Configuration:
- Open ports for Prometheus, Grafana, and related services
- SSH access for monitoring nodes
- Programming Tools:
- Python or Go for client libraries
Teaching Methodology
Interactive Lectures – Clear explanation of core concepts and features
Hands-on Labs – Guided exercises for practical implementation
Case Studies – Real-world scenarios to demonstrate monitoring solutions
Group Discussions – Collaborative troubleshooting and brainstorming
Assessments – Periodic quizzes and hands-on tasks to validate learning outcomes
