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Published inMay 2019
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ISBN-139781789612349
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Joel Bastos
Joel Bastos
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Joel Bastos

Joel Bastos is an open source supporter and contributor, with a background in infrastructure security and automation. He is always striving for the standardization of processes, code maintainability, and code reusability. He has defined, led, and implemented critical, highly available, and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale infrastructures in several organizations, with Prometheus as the cornerstone. He has worked at two unicorn companies in Portugal and at one of the largest transaction-oriented gaming companies in the world. Previously, he has supported several governmental entities with projects such as the Public Key Infrastructure for the Portuguese citizen card. You can find his blogs at kintoandar and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.
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Pedro Araújo
Pedro Araújo
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Pedro Araújo

Pedro Arajo is a site reliability and automation engineer and has defined and implemented several standards for monitoring at scale. His contributions have been fundamental in connecting development teams to infrastructure. He is highly knowledgeable about infrastructure, but his passion is in the automation and management of large-scale, highly-transactional systems. Pedro has contributed to several open source projects, such as Riemann, OpenTSDB, Sensu, Prometheus, and Thanos. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @phcrva.
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In this chapter, we explored the standard visualization tool for Prometheus: Grafana. We've learned how to provision not only data sources, but dashboards as well. After learning about the building blocks of a dashboard, we created a simple dashboard from scratch, learning all that it entails step by step. We also learned how to take advantage of the thriving community-built dashboard gallery. Giving back to the community is always important, so we've gone through the process of exporting and publishing dashboards. Finally, we were introduced to the Prometheus default visualizations—the consoles—which, even though they have a steep learning curve, are extremely powerful.

In the next chapter, we'll be exploring the Alertmanager, how to best take advantage of its functionalities, and how to integrate it with Prometheus.

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Joel Bastos

Joel Bastos is an open source supporter and contributor, with a background in infrastructure security and automation. He is always striving for the standardization of processes, code maintainability, and code reusability. He has defined, led, and implemented critical, highly available, and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale infrastructures in several organizations, with Prometheus as the cornerstone. He has worked at two unicorn companies in Portugal and at one of the largest transaction-oriented gaming companies in the world. Previously, he has supported several governmental entities with projects such as the Public Key Infrastructure for the Portuguese citizen card. You can find his blogs at kintoandar and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.
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Pedro Araújo

Pedro Arajo is a site reliability and automation engineer and has defined and implemented several standards for monitoring at scale. His contributions have been fundamental in connecting development teams to infrastructure. He is highly knowledgeable about infrastructure, but his passion is in the automation and management of large-scale, highly-transactional systems. Pedro has contributed to several open source projects, such as Riemann, OpenTSDB, Sensu, Prometheus, and Thanos. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @phcrva.
Read more about Pedro Araújo