DevOps & Site Reliability · PPL

Prometheus & Grafana Monitoring Certification

A specialist program designed to develop practical skills in infrastructure and application monitoring using Prometheus, PromQL, Grafana, alerting, dashboards, and observability practices.

  • ⏱3 DaysDuration
  • ◈PPLAccredited
  • ◐3 LanguagesArabic · English · Hindi
  • ◆₹14,999.00 Per delegate

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— The journey

Course Outline

What the programme covers, module by module.

Module 1: Introduction to Monitoring & Observability

  • Monitoring fundamentals
  • Observability concepts
  • Metrics
  • Logs and traces
  • Monitoring objectives
  • Modern infrastructure monitoring

Module 2: Prometheus Fundamentals

  • Prometheus overview
  • Time-series monitoring
  • Prometheus architecture
  • Pull-based monitoring
  • Core components
  • Common use cases

Module 3: Installing & Configuring Prometheus

  • Installation requirements
  • Prometheus installation
  • Configuration files
  • Starting Prometheus
  • Web interface
  • Environment validation

Module 4: Understanding Prometheus Metrics

  • Time-series data
  • Metric names
  • Labels
  • Timestamps
  • Samples
  • Metric organisation

Module 5: Prometheus Metric Types

  • Counters
  • Gauges
  • Histograms
  • Summaries
  • Metric selection
  • Metric use cases

Module 6: Targets & Scraping

  • Scrape targets
  • Scrape intervals
  • Endpoints
  • Target configuration
  • Scrape status
  • Target troubleshooting

Module 7: Prometheus Exporters

  • Exporter concepts
  • Node Exporter
  • Application exporters
  • Database exporters
  • Custom exporters
  • Exporter configuration

Module 8: PromQL Fundamentals

  • PromQL syntax
  • Metric selectors
  • Label matching
  • Range vectors
  • Instant vectors
  • Query execution

Module 9: Advanced PromQL

  • Aggregation operators
  • Mathematical operations
  • Rate functions
  • Increase functions
  • Quantiles
  • Complex queries

Module 10: Recording Rules

  • Recording rule concepts
  • Precomputed queries
  • Rule groups
  • Naming conventions
  • Performance benefits
  • Rule management

Module 11: Prometheus Alerting Rules

  • Alert rules
  • Alert expressions
  • Thresholds
  • Alert states
  • Labels
  • Annotations

Module 12: Alertmanager

  • Alertmanager architecture
  • Alert routing
  • Receivers
  • Grouping
  • Silencing
  • Inhibition

Module 13: Grafana Fundamentals

  • Grafana overview
  • Grafana architecture
  • Data sources
  • User interface
  • Organisations
  • Basic configuration

Module 14: Connecting Prometheus to Grafana

  • Prometheus data source
  • Connection configuration
  • Query configuration
  • Data source testing
  • Metric exploration
  • Dashboard integration

Module 15: Building Grafana Dashboards

  • Dashboard creation
  • Panels
  • Visualisations
  • Queries
  • Variables
  • Dashboard organisation

Module 16: Advanced Grafana Visualisation

  • Time-series panels
  • Gauges
  • Tables
  • Stat panels
  • Transformations
  • Dashboard variables

Module 17: Grafana Alerting

  • Alert rules
  • Contact points
  • Notification policies
  • Alert conditions
  • Alert evaluation
  • Alert management

Module 18: Kubernetes Monitoring

  • Kubernetes metrics
  • Cluster monitoring
  • Node monitoring
  • Pod monitoring
  • Container metrics
  • Workload health

Module 19: Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Cloud monitoring principles
  • Virtual machine metrics
  • Resource utilisation
  • Cloud service metrics
  • Exporter integration
  • Cloud workload visibility

Module 20: Application & Service Monitoring

  • Application metrics
  • Request rates
  • Error rates
  • Response times
  • Service availability
  • Performance indicators

Module 21: Troubleshooting & Performance Optimisation

  • Missing metrics
  • Scrape failures
  • PromQL troubleshooting
  • Dashboard issues
  • Alert problems
  • Monitoring performance

Module 22: Practical Monitoring Implementation

  • Prometheus configuration
  • Exporter deployment
  • PromQL development
  • Grafana dashboard creation
  • Alert configuration
  • Infrastructure monitoring
— 01.2 · Is it right for you?

Who it's for & what's included

Pick a delivery method to see exactly who it suits and everything you receive.

Who it's for

Classroom

Best for learners who want face-to-face tuition and to network with peers in person.

What's included

Everything you get

  • ✓ Live instructor on-site
  • ✓ Printed workbook & materials
  • ✓ Group exercises & case studies
Who it's for

Online Instructor-Led

Best for learners who want a live instructor and a fixed schedule, without the travel.

What's included

Everything you get

  • ✓ Live instructor via video call
  • ✓ Digital workbook & resources
  • ✓ Session recordings
Who it's for

Self-Paced

Best for self-motivated learners who need maximum flexibility around work and life.

What's included

Everything you get

  • ✓ On-demand video lessons
  • ✓ Interactive quizzes
  • ✓ 24/7 access on any device
— What you will master

Course Objectives

01

Understand Prometheus and Grafana architecture and monitoring concepts.

02

Configure Prometheus to collect and store time-series metrics.

03

Deploy and manage exporters for infrastructure and application monitoring.

04

Write PromQL queries to analyse and aggregate monitoring data.

05

Configure recording rules, alerting rules, and Alertmanager workflows.

06

Build interactive monitoring dashboards and visualisations using Grafana.

07

Monitor Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, applications, and services.

08

Troubleshoot and optimise Prometheus and Grafana monitoring environments.

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— Questions answered

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Prometheus and Grafana?
Prometheus is a monitoring and time-series metrics platform, while Grafana provides dashboards and visualisations for analysing monitoring data from Prometheus and other data sources.
Who should attend this course?
The course is suitable for DevOps engineers, SRE professionals, cloud engineers, platform engineers, system administrators, and technical working professionals.
Do I need previous monitoring experience?
No advanced monitoring experience is required, although basic knowledge of Linux, cloud infrastructure, containers, or DevOps is helpful.
Which topics are covered?
The course covers Prometheus, exporters, metrics, PromQL, recording rules, Alertmanager, Grafana dashboards, visualisations, alerting, Kubernetes monitoring, cloud monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Does the course cover cloud monitoring?
Yes. The program covers monitoring principles for cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, resource utilisation, cloud workloads, service metrics, and exporter-based integrations.
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