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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus
Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus: Implement and scale queries, dashboards, and alerting across machines and containers

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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

Section 1: Introduction

On completion of this section, the reader will have the basic knowledge they need to proceed with a deep dive into the Prometheus stack.

The following chapters are included in this section:

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Key benefits

  • Integrate Prometheus with Alertmanager and Grafana for building a complete monitoring system
  • Explore PromQL, Prometheus' functional query language, with easy-to-follow examples
  • Learn how to deploy Prometheus components using Kubernetes and traditional instances

Description

Prometheus is an open source monitoring system. It provides a modern time series database, a robust query language, several metric visualization possibilities, and a reliable alerting solution for traditional and cloud-native infrastructure. This book covers the fundamental concepts of monitoring and explores Prometheus architecture, its data model, and how metric aggregation works. Multiple test environments are included to help explore different configuration scenarios, such as the use of various exporters and integrations. You’ll delve into PromQL, supported by several examples, and then apply that knowledge to alerting and recording rules, as well as how to test them. After that, alert routing with Alertmanager and creating visualizations with Grafana is thoroughly covered. In addition, this book covers several service discovery mechanisms and even provides an example of how to create your own. Finally, you’ll learn about Prometheus federation, cross-sharding aggregation, and also long-term storage with the help of Thanos. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement and scale Prometheus as a full monitoring system on-premises, in cloud environments, in standalone instances, or using container orchestration with Kubernetes.

Who is this book for?

If you’re a software developer, cloud administrator, site reliability engineer, DevOps enthusiast or system admin looking to set up a fail-safe monitoring and alerting system for sustaining infrastructure security and performance, this book is for you. Basic networking and infrastructure monitoring knowledge will help you understand the concepts covered in this book.

What you will learn

  • Grasp monitoring fundamentals and implement them using Prometheus
  • Discover how to extract metrics from common infrastructure services
  • Find out how to take full advantage of PromQL
  • Design a highly available, resilient, and scalable Prometheus stack
  • Explore the power of Kubernetes Prometheus Operator
  • Understand concepts such as federation and cross-shard aggregation
  • Unlock seamless global views and long-term retention in cloud-native apps with Thanos

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Table of Contents

20 Chapters
Section 1: Introduction Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Monitoring Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
An Overview of the Prometheus Ecosystem Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting Up a Test Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Getting Started with Prometheus Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Running a Prometheus Server Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exporters and Integrations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Prometheus Query Language - PromQL Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Troubleshooting and Validation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Dashboards and Alerts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Defining Alerting and Recording Rules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding and Extending Alertmanager Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 4: Scalability, Resilience, and Maintainability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Choosing the Right Service Discovery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scaling and Federating Prometheus Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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I still reading, a very valuable resource!!!
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William Davis Jul 08, 2019
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The book outline seems too good to be true but I think the authors did a very good job of focusing on the most important aspects of the Prometheus stack without leaving behind anything worth mentioning. Inside this book, we can find a full step by step guide with practical examples available on GitHub, relying not only on virtual machines but also in containers using Kubernetes. The writing, although technical, is straight to the point.Currently, we’re trying to implement Thanos at our company and this is the first book mentioning the project that I could find, only wish it could have more chapters about it. The diagram that made Thanos really click for me can be found in the photo attached.The testing environments are a great advantage to understand how all the components interact, making the learning experience straightforward.
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Jack Jun 30, 2019
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This book is more than an overview of Prometheus and its components, it’s a full course on modern monitoring using this technology as a baseline. I’ve always struggled to understand time series fully until being presented with the hands-on examples available in this book, and for that, I’m thankful to the authors.
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Don May 01, 2024
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After looking for the content for this book as a file to download with this book, it is hosted elsewhere. This was in the book, but there should be a reference to that fact on the book page where I go to download/read the book. One hates not having content needed before starting to read the book. So, please provide a message that this is available somewhere else PRIOR to a reader reading your book.
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Victor Nov 16, 2020
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I really want to like this book. It is obvious that the authors worked very hard on constructing the examples.The book starts off well, with an excellent explanation of monitoring basics. Unfortunately the demos' explanations are generally lacking and I found them hard to follow, for example the explanation of histograms and summaries were incoherent and I needed to go to the Prometheus site for a comprehensible explanation. The graphics are black and white low res screenshots, that you need a microscope to read. You can download high-resolution color versions from the Packt websiteAfter the first few chapters, the book was obviously thrown together quickly and was not edited professionally.Chapter 5 was largely incoherent. "If you collect data at a greater interval than five minutes, you will get inconsistent results, and as such two minutes is the maximum sane value to allow for failures." Why??? No explanation. Many of these throughout the chapter and in fact throughout the rest of the book, it's infuriating. There are some 15 pages building up a Kubernetes configuration, which is really well thought out. However it is all controlled via minikube and kubectl, and there is virtually no explanation of what these commands are doing, so you're just typing arcane symbols without any explanation.One tip - save yourself a lot of typing. When you download the code, check the provisioning directory in every chapter for the configuration scripts.Important, the environment setup does not work with Windows. They could have told you that instead of saying it hasn't been tested with Windows. Ok so on the Mac, it works fine. It helps to know a bit about Kubernetes because the environment is all configured using kubectl and minikube.Bottom line - The first four chapters are excellent, but it is downhill from there. The examples are well done, but the explanations are generally unclear and sparse. The Kubernetes commands used throughout the book are never really explained. The book is laid out as here are the capabilities and here is how you configure them. It would have been much better if they presented it as "here are the problems and here is how you can solve them". I would not recommend this book unless you have a good understanding of Kubernetes and can dig into the example files without much help from the book. I don't blame the authors - they did a great job pulling the examples together. I blame Packt for releasing this with virtually no editing.UPDATE If you are looking for an excellent book on Prometheus, I highly recommend O'Reilly's Prometheus Up and Running. The prose or clear, the examples are bit-sized, and everything runs on Linux, which I am running on a docker container on Windows. You might want to start with the O'Reilly
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