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Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

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

By Joel Bastos , Pedro Araújo
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Book May 2019 442 pages 1st Edition
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Publication date : May 31, 2019
Length 442 pages
Edition : 1st Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781789612349
Category :
Programming
Concepts :
Application Monitoring
Tools :
Prometheus (Beginner)
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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.

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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Publication date : May 31, 2019
Length 442 pages
Edition : 1st Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781789612349
Category :
Programming
Concepts :
Application Monitoring
Tools :
Prometheus (Beginner)

Table of Contents

21 Chapters
Preface Packt Packt
Preface
Introduction to the book and the technology
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Get in touch
Section 1: Introduction Packt Packt
Section 1: Introduction
Monitoring Fundamentals Packt Packt
Monitoring Fundamentals
Definition of monitoring
Whitebox versus blackbox monitoring
Understanding metrics collection
Summary
Questions
Further reading
An Overview of the Prometheus Ecosystem Packt Packt
An Overview of the Prometheus Ecosystem
Metrics collection with Prometheus
Exposing internal state with exporters
Alert routing and management with Alertmanager
Visualizing your data
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Setting Up a Test Environment Packt Packt
Setting Up a Test Environment
Code organization
Machine requirements
Spinning up a new environment
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Section 2: Getting Started with Prometheus Packt Packt
Section 2: Getting Started with Prometheus
Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals Packt Packt
Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals
Understanding the Prometheus data model
A tour of the four core metric types
Longitudinal and cross-sectional aggregations
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Running a Prometheus Server Packt Packt
Running a Prometheus Server
Deep dive into the Prometheus configuration
Managing Prometheus in a standalone server
Managing Prometheus in Kubernetes
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Exporters and Integrations Packt Packt
Exporters and Integrations
Test environments for this chapter
Operating system exporter
Container exporter
From logs to metrics
Blackbox monitoring
Pushing metrics
More exporters
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Prometheus Query Language - PromQL Packt Packt
Prometheus Query Language - PromQL
The test environment for this chapter
Getting to know the basics of PromQL
Common patterns and pitfalls
Moving on to more complex queries
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Troubleshooting and Validation Packt Packt
Troubleshooting and Validation
The test environment for this chapter
Exploring promtool
Logs and endpoint validation
Analyzing the time series database
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Section 3: Dashboards and Alerts Packt Packt
Section 3: Dashboards and Alerts
Defining Alerting and Recording Rules Packt Packt
Defining Alerting and Recording Rules
Creating the test environment
Understanding how rule evaluation works
Setting up alerting in Prometheus
Testing your rules
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards Packt Packt
Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards
Test environment for this chapter
How to use Grafana with Prometheus
Building your own dashboards
Discovering ready-made dashboards
Default Prometheus visualizations
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Understanding and Extending Alertmanager Packt Packt
Understanding and Extending Alertmanager
Setting up the test environment
Alertmanager fundamentals
Alertmanager configuration
Common Alertmanager notification integrations
Customizing your alert notifications
Who watches the Watchmen?
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Section 4: Scalability, Resilience, and Maintainability Packt Packt
Section 4: Scalability, Resilience, and Maintainability
Choosing the Right Service Discovery Packt Packt
Choosing the Right Service Discovery
Test environment for this chapter
Running through the service discovery options
Using a built-in service discovery
Building a custom service discovery
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Scaling and Federating Prometheus Packt Packt
Scaling and Federating Prometheus
Test environment for this chapter
Scaling with the help of sharding
Having a global view using federation
Using Thanos to mitigate Prometheus shortcomings at scale
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus Packt Packt
Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus
Test environment for this chapter
Remote write and remote read
Options for metrics storage
Thanos remote storage and ecosystem
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Assessments Packt Packt
Assessments
Chapter 1, Monitoring Fundamentals
Chapter 2, An Overview of the Prometheus Ecosystem
Chapter 3, Setting Up a Test Environment
Chapter 4, Prometheus Metrics Fundamentals
Chapter 5, Running a Prometheus Server
Chapter 6, Exporters and Integrations
Chapter 7, Prometheus Query Language - PromQL
Chapter 8, Troubleshooting and Validation
Chapter 9, Defining Alerting and Recording Rules
Chapter 10, Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards
Chapter 11, Understanding and Extending Alertmanager
Chapter 12, Choosing the Right Service Discovery
Chapter 13, Scaling and Federating Prometheus
Chapter 14, Integrating Long-Term Storage with Prometheus
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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 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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