Prometheus: Up & Running: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring - Softcover

Pivotto, Julien; Brazil, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1098131142 ISBN 13: 9781098131142

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2023

Synopsis

Get up to speed with Prometheus, the metrics-based monitoring system used in production by tens of thousands of organizations. This updated second edition provides site reliability engineers, Kubernetes administrators, and software developers with a hands-on introduction to the most important aspects of Prometheus, including dashboarding and alerting, direct code instrumentation, and metric collection from third-party systems with exporters. Prometheus server maintainer Julien Pivotto and core developer Brian Brazil demonstrate how you can use Prometheus for application and infrastructure monitoring. This book guides you through Prometheus setup, the Node Exporter, and the Alertmanager, and then shows you how to use these tools for application and infrastructure monitoring. You'll understand why this open source system has continued to gain popularity in recent years. You will: Know where and how much instrumentation to apply to your application code Monitor your infrastructure with Node Exporter and use new collectors for network system pressure metrics Get an introduction to Grafana, a popular tool for building dashboards Use service discovery and the new HTTP SD monitoring system to provide different views of your machines and services Use Prometheus with Kubernetes and examine exporters you can use with containers Discover Prom's new improvements and features, including trigonometry functions Learn how Prometheus supports important security features including TLS and basic authentication

About this title

About the Author

Julien Pivotto has contributed to the Prometheus server and the CNCF ecosystem since 2017. He is now maintaining the Prometheus server. He is currently an Open-Source consultant at Inuits where he is helping organizations with the deployment of long-term solutions based on Open-Source infrastructure. He is a firm believer in the DevOps movement and has a technical focus on infrastructure automation, continuous integration, monitoring, and high availability. Brian Brazil is the founder of Robust Perception and a Prometheus core developer. He is well known in the community, has given countless presentations at conferences, and his blog is widely read within the community.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1098131142
• ISBN 13: 9781098131142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 370