Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance

Whether you are already familiar with Grafana or a beginner, Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE) Opeyemi Onikute guides you through what you need to use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor and analyze applications in the real-world. Learn about Prometheus as a data source and explore all the tools you need to succeed with Grafana as a whole, including other data sources in the future. Beyond Grafana, find out how to create world-class dashboards as a whole.

Learning objectives

• Create and manage dashboards in Grafana with Prometheus.
• Understand how to create world-class dashboards beyond Grafana through study of dashboard structure and layout, presentation and design, and charting.
• Learn to manage Grafana dashboards automatically using infrastructure-as-code.
• Apply what you learn with practical examples in the real world.
• Understand the fundamental building blocks of Grafana such as panels, annotations, and queries.