Prometheus and Grafana for Beginners: From Zero to Monitoring: Learn Metrics, PromQL, Dashboards, Alerting, and Kubernetes Observability Step by Step - Softcover

Vertex, Zane

9798171268794: Prometheus and Grafana for Beginners: From Zero to Monitoring: Learn Metrics, PromQL, Dashboards, Alerting, and Kubernetes Observability Step by Step

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ISBN 13: 9798171268794

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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Master Prometheus and Grafana from the Ground Up—Even With Zero Prior Monitoring Experience!

Modern cloud-native systems, microservices, and Kubernetes clusters rarely fail quietly. When applications slow down, memory leaks develop, or workloads restart unexpectedly, simply knowing that a server is "online" is no longer enough. You need meaningful metrics, visualization, alerting, and observability.

Whether you're a system administrator, DevOps engineer, cloud engineer, developer, or someone completely new to monitoring, this book takes you from foundational concepts to building a functional observability system.

What You Will Learn

Monitoring and Observability Fundamentals — Understand metrics, time-series data, labels, logs, traces, and the role Prometheus and Grafana play in modern observability.
Prometheus Setup and Configuration — Learn how to install Prometheus, work with prometheus.yml, configure scrape targets, and use Node Exporter to monitor CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, and network activity.
PromQL from the Ground Up — Learn label filtering, regex matching, arithmetic operators, aggregations such as sum, avg, min, max, and count, and how to work correctly with counters, gauges, and histograms.
Grafana Dashboards and Visualization — Connect Grafana to Prometheus, explore metrics, create visualization panels, organize dashboards, and use variables to turn raw monitoring data into useful operational insight.
Alerting and Alertmanager — Create effective alerting rules, understand alert states, configure Alertmanager, route notifications, and reduce unnecessary alert noise and alert fatigue.
Application and Kubernetes Monitoring — Monitor applications, Kubernetes nodes, pods, containers, and workloads using Prometheus service discovery, exporters, and kube-state-metrics.
Production Monitoring Practices — Learn recording rules, monitoring security, performance optimization, scalable storage strategies, and systematic troubleshooting of monitoring pipelines.

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