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Mastering Prometheus

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805125662

Pages 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

William Hegedus

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Prometheus

2. Chapter 1: Observability, Monitoring, and Prometheus

3. Chapter 2: Deploying Prometheus

4. Chapter 3: The Prometheus Data Model and PromQL

5. Chapter 4: Using Service Discovery

6. Chapter 5: Effective Alerting with Prometheus

7. Part 2: Scaling Prometheus

8. Chapter 6: Advancing Prometheus: Sharding, Federation, and High Availability

9. Chapter 7: Optimizing and Debugging Prometheus

10. Chapter 8: Enabling Systems Monitoring with the Node Exporter

11. Part 3: Extending Prometheus

12. Chapter 9: Utilizing Remote Storage Systems with Prometheus

13. Chapter 10: Extending Prometheus Globally with Thanos

14. Chapter 11: Jsonnet and Monitoring Mixins

15. Chapter 12: Utilizing Continuous Integration (CI) Pipelines with Prometheus

16. Chapter 13: Defining and Alerting on SLOs

17. Chapter 14: Integrating Prometheus with OpenTelemetry

18. Chapter 15: Beyond Prometheus

19. Index

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Thanos Sidecar works by running alongside the Prometheus server as a “sidecar” (clever naming, huh?). This is technically only a strict requirement if you’re using the sidecar to upload Prometheus data to object storage, but you should strive to deploy the Sidecar alongside your Prometheus instance, even if you don’t use that feature. Doing so will help minimize latency between the Sidecar and Prometheus.

The Sidecar fulfills its first job of enabling distributed querying of Prometheus instances by exposing a gRPC API that Thanos Query (or other Thanos components such as Ruler) can communicate with. This gRPC API (henceforth referred to as StoreAPI) is implemented and exposed by the...

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Authors (1)

William Hegedus

William Hegedus has worked in tech for over a decade in a variety of roles, culminating in site reliability engineering. He developed a keen interest in Prometheus and observability technologies during his time managing a 24/7 NOC environment and eventually became the first SRE at Linode, one of the foremost independent cloud providers. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022, and now Will manages a team of SREs focused on building the internal observability platform for Akamai's Connected Cloud. His team is responsible for a global fleet of Prometheus servers spanning over two dozen data centers and ingesting millions of data points every second, in addition to operating a suite of other observability tools. Will is an open source advocate and contributor who has contributed code to Prometheus, Thanos, and many other CNCF projects related to Kubernetes and observability. He lives in central Virginia with his wonderful wife, four kids, three cats, two dogs, and a bearded dragon.

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