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Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241)

See everything, miss nothing—Prometheus gives you the edge for the roles shaping tomorrow’s infrastructure.

The course, along with real-world experience and study, will provide the skills and knowledge also tested by the Linux Foundation’s Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam.

You have three ways to purchase!

1. Course only – $99
2. Interested in PCA? Bundle with a THRIVE-ONE Annual Subscription (includes LFS241 + unlimited access to all e-Learning courses, SkillCreds, and premium Microlearning content) – $495
3. Course + Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) certification exam – $299

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Who Is It For
Built for DevOps engineers, SREs, and system admins ready to level up observability skills and get Prometheus-ready for high-impact roles in modern, cloud-native environments.
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What You’ll Learn
Walk away knowing how to monitor real-world systems with Prometheus—track containers, catch issues early, use service discovery, and build production-grade observability into your Kubernetes stack.
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What It Prepares You For
Prepare for real-world observability challenges—whether you're deploying at scale, building dashboards, or setting alerts. This course, along with real-world experience and study, will provide the skills and knowledge also tested by the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam.
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Course Outline
Image Chapter 1. Course Introduction
Image Chapter 2. Introduction to Observability
Image Chapter 3. Introduction to Prometheus
Image Chapter 4. Installing and Setting Up Prometheus
Image Chapter 5. Basic Querying
Image Chapter 6. Dashboarding
Image Chapter 7. Monitoring Host Metrics
Image Chapter 8. Monitoring Container Metrics
Image Chapter 9. Instrumenting Code
Image Chapter 10. Building Exporters
Image Chapter 11. Advanced Querying
Image Chapter 12. Relabeling
Image Chapter 13. Service Discovery
Image Chapter 14. Blackbox Monitoring
Image Chapter 15. Pushing Data
Image Chapter 16. Alerting
Image Chapter 17. Making Prometheus Highly Available
Image Chapter 18. Recording Rules
Image Chapter 19. Scaling Prometheus Deployments
Image Chapter 20. Local Storage
Image Chapter 21. Remote Storage Integrations
Image Chapter 22. Transitioning From and Integration with Other Monitoring Systems
Image Chapter 23. Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus
Image Chapter 24. Prometheus and Kubernetes
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, you should have:

  • Basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration
  • Familiarity with common shell commands, such as ls, cd, curl, etc.
  • Some knowledge and/or development experience in Go and Python
  • Experience with running containers and building container images with Docker
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts
Lab Info
To successfully complete the lab exercises in this course, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Detailed instructions to set up your lab environment are provided in the course.

If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider, or if the cloud provider’s terms and conditions change.

Reviews
Aug 2024
The material covers many aspects of Prometheus in reasonable depth, complemented by the lab exercises.
Mar 2024
I really liked that it has labs and links to the documentation of the technologies covered in the course.
Feb 2024
I liked the entire course, especially the practical part.
Jan 2024
Practical, thorough, and well-organized.
Sep 2023
Easy to follow commands and tutorials.
Aug 2023
The content and labs are great!
Jul 2023
All examples were easy to apply, and the labs were easy to build.
Jun 2023
I liked the explanation of theory and use cases.
May 2023
It covers all stuff related to Prometheus, not just querying and using it.
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