Workshop
Getting started with Prometheus
This workshop will guide you through a basic installation of Prometheus and your first
initial metrics collection.
Prerequisites: Podman Desktop v4.3+
Notes: workshop based on Prometheus v2.42.0 and tested with Mac OS X (Linux or Windows
might require some modifications of the workshop instructions)
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Lab 1 - Introduction to Prometheus
Lab goals: This lab introduces you to the Prometheus project and provides you with an
understanding of its role in the cloud native observability community.
Lab 2 - Installing Prometheus
Lab goals: This lab walks you through the steps for installing Prometheus on your local machine.
Lab 3 - Introduction to the Query Language
Lab goals: This lab introduces the Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) giving you an introduction
and sets up a demo project to provide more realistic data for querying.
Lab 4 - Exploring Basic Queries
Lab goals: This lab dives into using PromQL to explore basic querying so that you can use it
to visualize collected metrics data.
Lab 5 - Using Advanced Queries
Lab goals: This lab takes you deeper into PromQL expanding your query toolbox with more advanced
queries for visualizing collected metrics data.
Lab 6 - Relabeling Metrics in Prometheus
Lab goals: The lab teaches you how relabeling metrics work in Prometheus and how to apply them
when mapping, aggregating, dropping, or filtering scraped metrics.
Getting Started with Open Visualization
Goals: This is a standalone workshop focused on gaining an understanding of what the basic
components are to building dashboards with the Perses project, installing Perses, exploring its
tooling, and building your first dashboard.
Lab 8 - Discovering Service Targets
Lab goals: This lab ensures you understand how service discovery is used in Prometheus for
locating and scraping targets for metrics collection. You'll also set up a service discovery
mechanism to start scraping metrics from a service.
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Lab 9 - Instrumenting Applications
Lab goals: This lab introduces client libraries and shows you how to use them to add Prometheus
metrics to applications and services. You'll get hands-on and instrument a sample application
to start collecting metrics.
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Lab 10 - Prometheus and Kubernetes
Lab goals: This lab shows you how to install, configure, and start collecting basic metrics
from a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster with Prometheus.
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Conclusion - Metrics Monitoring at Scale
Lab goals: This lab helps you understand some of the pain points with Prometheus that arise as
you start to scale out your observability architecture and start caring more about reliability.
The End
This completes the workshop, thanks for your time and feedback is always welcome!
Eric D. Schabell
Director Evangelism
Contact: @ericschabell {@fosstodon.org}
or https://www.schabell.org
Director Evangelism
Contact: @ericschabell {@fosstodon.org}
or https://www.schabell.org