Prometheus & Grafana Bootcamp: Monitoring For Devops & Sre

Hands-on Prometheus & Grafana to master observability, alerts & dashboards for DevOps, Cloud Engineers & SREs.

What you'll learn

Learn Full In & Out of Prometheus toolkit with proper HANDS-ON examples from scratch.

Start with the implementation of Prometheus core concepts - Architecture, Installation, PromQL, Exporters, Functions, Operators, etc.

Pushgateway, Service Discovery, Recording Rules, Routing Trees, Create Custom Exporter, HTTP API, and many more…

Grafana Basics & UI Navigation

Query Building & Data Transformation

Apply monitoring skills in DevOps, SRE & Cloud Engineering roles to boost career growth.

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Linux commands (helpful but not mandatory).

Internet Connection & Browser Access

Description

Are you ready to master monitoring and observability with the world’s most popular open-source tools — Prometheus and Grafana?In today’s fast-paced DevOps and Cloud environments, effective monitoring is no longer optional — it’s a must-have skill for every DevOps Engineer, SRE, and Cloud Professional. This hands-on course will guide you step by step, from setting up Prometheus and Grafana to building real-world dashboards, alerts, and monitoring pipelines.You’ll learn how to:Install and configure Prometheus for metrics collection.Build powerful Grafana dashboards to visualize data.Set up alerting rules & notifications for proactive incident management.Monitor applications, servers, containers, and cloud infrastructure.Apply your skills with hands-on labs & real-world projects.This course is designed for beginners and professionals alike. Even if you’ve never worked with Prometheus or Grafana before, we’ll cover everything from scratch with practical demos and examples.By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence to set up production-ready monitoring solutions that will give you — and your team — complete visibility into your systems.Whether you are preparing for your next DevOps role, improving your SRE skill set, or simply want to upgrade your monitoring stack, this course will help you achieve your goals.Enroll now and take the first step toward becoming a Prometheus & Grafana expert!

Overview

Section 1: Start Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

Lecture 1 Prometheus & Grafana Basics: Setup, Concepts & First Steps

Lecture 2 Why Prometheus

Lecture 3 Terminology of Prometheus

Lecture 4 Download Course Source Code From GIT

Lecture 5 Course Chat with Students and Tech Community

Lecture 6 Prometheus Architecture Overview

Section 2: How Prometheus Works

Lecture 7 What makes Prometheus so Awesome

Lecture 8 Understanding Prometheus Metric Types

Lecture 9 Understanding Prometheus Metric Types II

Section 3: Running and Configuring Prometheus

Lecture 10 Prometheus Installation Overview

Lecture 11 Create Cloud Machine for Installation

Lecture 12 $200 Digital Ocean Referral Link

Lecture 13 Install Prometheus on Unix/Linux Machines

Lecture 14 Explore Prometheus User Interface

Lecture 15 Understand the Prometheus Default Configuration

Lecture 16 Run Prometheus in Back Ground

Section 4: Getting Started with Prometheus Exporters

Lecture 17 Using Prometheus Exporters

Lecture 18 Monitoring Linux Servers with Node Exporters

Lecture 19 Demo : Install and Configure Node Exporter

Lecture 20 WMI Exporter - Windows Monitoring System

Section 5: Monitoring Databases with Prometheus

Lecture 21 Monitoring MySQL Databases with Prometheus

Lecture 22 Using MySQL Exporter

Lecture 23 Reload Prometheus Configuration without Restart

Lecture 24 Demo: Installing MySQL Exporter

Lecture 25 Text Direction : Demo - Installing MySQL Exporter

Lecture 26 Demo: Configure MySQL Exporter as System Service II

Lecture 27 Text Direction: Demo - Configure MySQL Exporter as System Service II

Section 6: BlackBox Exporter | Monitoring Network Endpoints in Prometheus

Lecture 28 What is BlackBox Exporter

Lecture 29 Download and Configure BlackBox Exporter

Lecture 30 HTTP Probe Module I

Lecture 31 HTTP Probe Module II

Lecture 32 HTTP Probe Module III

Lecture 33 TCP Probe Module

Lecture 34 DNS Probe Module

Lecture 35 Scrape Target From Blackbox

Lecture 36 Relabelling in Prometheus

Section 7: Monitoring Kubernetes Cluster with Prometheus

Lecture 37 Using Prometheus with Kubernetes

Lecture 38 Demo : Installing Prometheus in Kubernetes

Lecture 39 Access Prometheus Installed on Kubernetes Cluster

Lecture 40 Explore Prometheus Kubernetes Metrics

Section 8: Application Instrumentation - Client Library Metrics Guidelines

Lecture 41 Client Libraries and Metric Type

Lecture 42 SetUp Python Application For instrumentation

Lecture 43 Exposing Metrics using Client Libs

Lecture 44 Monitor Application using Prometheus

Lecture 45 Expose Counter Metrics

Lecture 46 Adding Labels to Exposed Metrics

Lecture 47 Expose Gauge Metrics

Lecture 48 Expose Summy Metrics

Lecture 49 Expose Histogram Metrics

Section 9: Application Instrumentation : Docker Environment

Lecture 50 Create a Machine For Docker Application Execution

Lecture 51 Adding Instrumentation in Docker Application

Lecture 52 Create Docker Image and Execute Application in Container

Lecture 53 Monitor Docker Application in Prometheus

Section 10: Application Instrumentation - Instrument GO Application

Lecture 54 SetUp GO Application

Lecture 55 Expose Counter Metric on GO App

Lecture 56 Expose Gauge Metric on GO App

Lecture 57 Expose Summary Metric on GO App

Lecture 58 Expose Histogram Metric on GO App

Section 11: Quantification of Instrumentation

Lecture 59 What to Instrument

Section 12: Prometheus Query Language - PromQL

Lecture 60 Datatypes in PromQL

Lecture 61 Selectors and Matchers in PromQL

Lecture 62 Binary Operator

Lecture 63 Groupers in PromQL

Lecture 64 Aggregation operators

Lecture 65 PromQL Functions - Part 1

Lecture 66 PromQL Functions - Part 2

Section 13: Recording Rules in Prometheus

Lecture 67 What is Recording Rule?

Lecture 68 Reload Prometheus Config at Runtime

Lecture 69 Writing Recording Rules

Lecture 70 Writing Recording Rules Part 2

Lecture 71 Add Multiple Rules

Section 14: Alerting Rules in Prometheus

Lecture 72 What is Alerting ?

Lecture 73 Writing and Firing the Alert

Lecture 74 Avoid False Alerts in System

Lecture 75 Add Labels on Alerts

Lecture 76 Installing Alert Manager

Lecture 77 Adding Alert Notifier - GMAIL

Lecture 78 Create GMAIL App Password

Lecture 79 Sending Alert Notification - GMAIL

Lecture 80 Send Additional Information in Alert

Section 15: Creating Routing Tree for Alerts

Lecture 81 Why do you need Routing Tree?

Lecture 82 Understanding Routing Tree Use-Case

Lecture 83 Prepare Alerting Rules

Lecture 84 Implementing the Routing Tree - 1

Lecture 85 Implementing the Routing Tree - 2

Lecture 86 Implementing the Routing Tree - 3

Lecture 87 Run Routing Tree Alerts

Lecture 88 Grouping Alerts

Lecture 89 Silencing the Alerts

Lecture 90 Send Alerts to Multiple StakeHolders

Section 16: Service Discovery in Prometheus

Lecture 91 Service Discovery Introduction

Lecture 92 File Bases Service Discovery

Section 17: Connect to multiple data sources like Prometheus, InfluxDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Lecture 93 Meet Grafana: The Artist of Metrics & Logs

Lecture 94 Why Use Grafana? Key Features, Benefits, and Comparisons

Lecture 95 Installing & Setting Up Grafana Across Environments

Lecture 96 Download Course Source Code From GIT

Lecture 97 Course Chat with Students and Tech Community

Section 18: Grafana Configuration & Administration

Lecture 98 Grafana Basic Configuration

Lecture 99 Dashboard Construction Process and Components

Lecture 100 Creating a Dashboard with Grafana Using Test Data

Section 19: Start Playing with Realtime Dashboards

Lecture 101 Learn How to Install Plugin in Grafana

Lecture 102 Create a Data Source for CSV Data

Lecture 103 Build DashBoards for CSV Data

Lecture 104 Build DashBoards for CSV Data II

DevOps Engineers & SREs,Someone who is curious and wants a better understanding of what Prometheus is and what Prometheus is good at