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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

You're reading from   Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus Implement and scale queries, dashboards, and alerting across machines and containers

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612349
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pedro Araujo Pedro Araujo
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Joel Bastos Joel Bastos
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction FREE CHAPTER
2. Monitoring Fundamentals 3. An Overview of the Prometheus Ecosystem 4. Setting Up a Test Environment 5. Section 2: Getting Started with Prometheus
6. Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals 7. Running a Prometheus Server 8. Exporters and Integrations 9. Prometheus Query Language - PromQL 10. Troubleshooting and Validation 11. Section 3: Dashboards and Alerts
12. Defining Alerting and Recording Rules 13. Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards 14. Understanding and Extending Alertmanager 15. Section 4: Scalability, Resilience, and Maintainability
16. Choosing the Right Service Discovery 17. Scaling and Federating Prometheus 18. Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Default Prometheus visualizations

Historically, Prometheus maintained its own tool to create dashboards, called PromDash. Over time, since Grafana improved its native support for Prometheus as a data source, the community began gravitating toward using Grafana as its primary visualization solution—so much so that PromDash was deprecated by the people who maintained Prometheus in favor of Grafana.

You can find the source code for PromDash at https://github.com/prometheus-junkyard/promdash.

Even though Grafana is the recommended visualization solution for most people, Prometheus also ships with an internal dashboarding feature called console templates. These console templates are written in raw HTML/CSS/JavaScript and leverage the power of the Go templating language to generate dashboards (called consoles) that are served by the Prometheus server itself. This makes them blazingly...

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