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Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Course Overview

Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Course Overview

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.

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Target Audience for Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)

The Prometheus Certified Associate course is designed for IT professionals focused on monitoring, observability, and system reliability.


• DevOps Engineers


• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)


• System Administrators


• Infrastructure Monitoring Staff


• Application Developers (focused on the operational aspect of apps)


• Cloud Engineers


• Network Engineers interested in observability


• Technical Architects designing monitoring solutions


• Product Owners managing apps with SLA requirements


• IT Operations Staff


• Technical Project Managers overseeing observability projects


• Data Analysts with a focus on infrastructure performance data


• Security Engineers with an interest in monitoring and alerts


• Support Engineers involved in incident management and uptime monitoring


• Quality Assurance Engineers integrating monitoring into testing processes


• Technical Consultants providing expertise in observability and monitoring tools




Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)?

Introduction to Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Course Learning Outcomes

The PCA course equips students with foundational knowledge in Prometheus, including its core principles, querying language, and effective use of its toolset for monitoring and alerting.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

  • Understand the core concepts of observability, including metrics, logs, events, and tracing.
  • Learn the differences between push and pull mechanisms and their relevance in Prometheus.
  • Gain insights into service discovery and the basics of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).
  • Comprehend the system architecture of Prometheus and the configuration required for scraping metrics.
  • Recognize Prometheus's limitations and how its data model and labels work.
  • Master querying with PromQL, selecting and aggregating data, and understanding rates, derivatives, and histograms.
  • Acquire skills in instrumenting applications using client libraries and structuring and naming metrics effectively.
  • Learn to configure and manage exporters for various services and applications.
  • Set up basic dashboards and configure alerting rules for operational insights.
  • Understand the functionalities and usage of Alertmanager for managing and routing alerts.

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