Prometheus: Up & Running: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring

Get up to speed with Prometheus, the metrics-based system used by tens of thousands of organisations in production. This practical guide provides applicationdevelopers, sysadmins, and DevOps practitioners with a hands-on introduction to the important aspects of Prometheus, including infrastructure and application monitoring, dashboarding and alerting, direct code instrumentation, and metric collection from third-party systems withexporters.
This open source system has gained popularity over thepast few years for good reason. With its simple yet powerful data model and query language, Prometheus does one thing and it does it well. Author and Prometheus developer Brian Brazil guides you through Prometheus setup, the Node exporter, and the Alertmanager, then guides you through its use in application and infrastructure monitoring.
• Know wherea n d how much to apply instrumentation to your application code
• Identify metrics with labels: unique key-value pairs
• Get anintroduction to Grafana, a popular tool for building dashboards
• Learn howt o use the Node exporter to monitor your infrastructure
• Use service discovery toprovide different views of vour machines and services
• Use Prometheus with Kubernetes, and examineexporters you can use with containers
• Convertdata from other monitoring systems into the Prometheus format

Brian Brazil is the founder fo Robust Perception and a Prometheus developer. He works on monitoring issues with companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 corporations. He is well known in the Prometheus community, has given countless presentations at conferences, and covers many aspects of Prometheus and monitoring on his blogon the Robust Perception website.