Part 1: Fundamentals of Prometheus

In this part, we’ll get acquainted with observability concepts and understand the role that Prometheus serves in adding observability to your systems and services. Then, we’ll dive into Prometheus itself by deploying it and going through a detailed examination of its data model and query language. Finally, we’ll see how to leverage built-in Prometheus service discovery features to make the configuration of scrape targets dynamic, and how to make the most of its alerting features.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Observability, Monitoring, and Prometheus
• Chapter 2, Deploying Prometheus
• Chapter 3, The Prometheus Data Model and PromQL
• Chapter 4, Using Service Discovery
• Chapter 5, Effective Alerting with Prometheus