Introduction to Prometheus Monitoring, Alertmanager, and Grafana with Course Outline

Prometheus is a monitoring platform that provides data collection and storage; to trigger alerts based on events it relies on the Alertmanager component (or Grafana Alerting). Alertmanager supports alert grouping, inhibition to prevent alert storms, and silencing to avoid duplicate notifications.

Grafana, an open‑source data visualization tool written in Go, offers monitoring, statistics, and alerting; it is used by companies such as PayPal, eBay, and Intel.

Alertmanager receives alerts from Prometheus and other clients, de‑duplicates and groups them, then routes them to appropriate receivers via Email, Slack, webhooks, or domestic IM tools like DingTalk.

Course Outline:

01. Monitoring Introduction 02. Prometheus Component Overview 03. Prometheus Data and Security Model 04. Installing Prometheus on CentOS 7 05. Running Prometheus in Docker 06. Using Node‑exporter to Monitor Nodes 07. Using cAdvisor for Container Monitoring 08. Configuring Labels 09. Monitoring CPU Utilization 10. Monitoring Memory Usage 11. Monitoring Disk Space and Forecasting Fullness 12. Monitoring Service Status 13. Collecting Metrics via Text Exporter 14. Persistent Queries with Recording Rules 15. Visualizing Metrics in Grafana 16. File‑based Service Discovery 17. DNS‑based Service Discovery 18. Alertmanager Overview 19. Installing and Configuring Alertmanager with Email Alerts 20. Adding Disk and Node Alerts 21. Adding Prometheus and systemd Services 22. Alertmanager Routing Configuration 23. Alertmanager Silence Configuration 24. High‑Availability Setup for Prometheus and Alertmanager 25. Alertmanager Cluster Configuration 26. Prometheus Cluster Configuration 27. Remote Write/Read Introduction 28. Configuring black_exporter 29. Introduction to Pushgateway 30. Pushgateway Configuration 31. Installing Prometheus on Kubernetes 32. Deploying Node‑exporter on Kubernetes 33. Deploying Prometheus on Kubernetes 34. Deploying Grafana on Kubernetes 35. Resolving Grafana CPU Data Display Issues 36. Deploying Alertmanager on Kubernetes

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