Araujo - HANDS-ON INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING WITH PROMETHEUS: monitor and visualize your infrastructure and... applications metrics with prometheus and grafana

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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 blog at blog.kintoandar.com and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.

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.

Brian Brazil is a Prometheus developer and the founder of Robust Perception. He works across the Prometheus ecosystem, and is involved in areas such as best practices, exporters, PromQL semantics, and client libraries. He is the main writer of the Reliable Insights blog, which regularly covers Prometheus topics, and is the author of the book Prometheus: Up and Running.

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This book about Prometheus, the second project to graduate within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), will help you to crystallize the core fundamentals of monitoring and the approaches available to ensure the required infrastructure visibility. It relies on practical examples, using test environments and diagrams, to communicate knowledge in an easy-to-digest manner.

The content was designed to ensure that all the important Prometheus stack concepts are tackled. Our main goal during the writing process was to aim the book at our past selves and ensure that they would have everything they needed to know about this technology in this book.

From running one Prometheus server, to what scaling options are available, from creating and testing alerting rules, to templating slack notifications; and from useful dashboards, to automating target discovery; many other topics will be explained to ensure a full knowledge base on infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus as its cornerstone.