PROMETHEUS IN ACTION - JULIEN PIVOTTO, BRIAN BRAZIL

Discover the power of monitoring with Prometheus! This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to understand and effectively monitor their infrastructure and application performance. Whether you are an experienced engineer or just starting your journey with DevOps, this book provides practical tips and knowledge to help you fully leverage Prometheus' capabilities.

• Monitor system performance
• Understand database load
• Optimize network throughput
• Detect bottlenecks
• Instrument application code
• Create Grafana dashboards
• Integrate with Kubernetes

Prometheus is a powerful monitoring tool that allows you to collect metrics from various sources, aggregate them, and visualize them. With it, you can quickly identify problems and respond to them before they affect your users. The authors, Julien Pivotto and Brian Brazil, are experts in the field of monitoring and share their knowledge and experience in this book to help you implement and effectively use Prometheus.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Prometheus, from basic concepts to advanced techniques. You will learn how to configure the Prometheus server, how to use the Node Exporter component to monitor infrastructure, how to instrument application code, and how to create dashboards using Grafana. In addition, you will learn about the new features of the PromQL language, service discovery providers, and Alertmanager receivers. Server-side security issues, including TLS and basic authentication, are also covered.

With this book, you will understand how to monitor infrastructure using components such as Node Exporter, how to instrument application code, how to create dashboards using Grafana, and how to work with Kubernetes. You will gain practical skills that will allow you to reliably monitor services and ensure high availability of your applications. Whether you work in a small startup or a large corporation, this book will help you succeed in monitoring and optimizing the performance of your systems.

Helion Publishing, known for publishing high-quality technical literature, presents the second, updated edition of the Prometheus system guide. This book is not only a compendium of knowledge but also a practical guide that will walk you step by step through the process of implementing and configuring Prometheus. With it, you will become an expert in monitoring and will be able to effectively manage the performance of your applications and infrastructure. Invest in your knowledge and reach for this book today!