Prometheus & Monitoring Operations
Turn raw metrics into alerts that mean something: PromQL, alert rules tied to symptoms, Grafana, and the observability stack.
- Who it’s for
- Engineers responsible for monitoring and on-call signal quality.
- Prerequisites
- You have Prometheus and/or Grafana running somewhere.
Skills you’ll build
- ✓Write useful PromQL
- ✓Author alert rules on user-facing symptoms
- ✓Reduce alert fatigue
- ✓Assemble an observability stack
4 modules · self-paced
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Module 1
Metrics and PromQL
Query the signals that matter (RED/USE) instead of dashboards nobody reads.
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Module 2
Alert rules that page correctly
Generate alert rules, PromQL, and runbooks tied to symptoms — not noise.
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Module 3
Grafana dashboards
Build dashboards that answer "is the user affected?" at a glance.
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Module 4
Use observability in an incident
Drive a real triage from metrics → logs → traces in the workspace.
Exercise
Error rate is up and you have metrics, logs, and traces. Use them in order to localize the failing service; record what each told you.
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Mission complete 🎉
You’ve worked every module of Prometheus & Monitoring Operations.
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