The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) course is designed to equip learners with the fundamental knowledge and skills required for effective monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, a leading open-source monitoring system. The course covers observability concepts, including understanding metrics, logs, events, and the intricacies of tracing and spans. It delves into the Prometheus fundamentals, such as its system architecture, configuration, scraping, and the PromQL language for querying Prometheus data effectively.
Learners will gain practical insights into instrumentation and exporters for generating and collecting metrics, as well as best practices for structuring and naming metrics. The course also tackles alerting and dashboarding, teaching how to set up alerts, configure Alertmanager, and create informative dashboards. This comprehensive training will enable learners to implement robust monitoring solutions that can lead to improved system reliability and performance, aligning with SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs for service quality.
