Get up to speed with Prometheus the metrics-based monitoring system used in production by tens
of thousands of organizations. This updated second edition provides site reliability engineers
Kubernetes administrators and software developers with a hands-on introduction to the most
important aspects of Prometheus including dashboarding and alerting direct code
instrumentation and metric collection from third-party systems with exporters. Prometheus
server maintainer Julien Pivotto and core developer Brian Brazil demonstrate how you can use
Prometheus for application and infrastructure monitoring. This book guides you through
Prometheus setup the Node Exporter and the Alertmanager and then shows you how to use these
tools for application and infrastructure monitoring. You'll understand why this open source
system has continued to gain popularity in recent years. You will: Know where and how much
instrumentation to apply to your application code Monitor your infrastructure with Node
Exporter and use new collectors for network system pressure metrics Get an introduction to
Grafana a popular tool for building dashboards Use service discovery and the new HTTP SD
monitoring system to provide different views of your machines and services Use Prometheus with
Kubernetes and examine exporters you can use with containers Discover Prom's new improvements
and features including trigonometry functions Learn how Prometheus supports important security
features including TLS and basic authentication
