Training: Observability with Prometheus and Grafana

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Observability with Prometheus and Grafana Training

The Observability with Prometheus and Grafana course allows you to set up a modern approach to monitoring and observability for your infrastructures and applications. In a context of cloud, microservices and distributed platforms, it becomes essential to collect the right metrics, visualize them effectively and set up alerting mechanisms suited to production environments.

A complete course to collect, analyze, visualize and alert

Throughout this course, you will learn how to deploy and configure Prometheus, collect metrics from various sources, query data with PromQL, design dashboards in Grafana and set up actionable alerts. This course provides a concrete, operational vision of modern observability and is the natural continuation of DevOps or cloud native tracks.

Participant Profiles

DevOps engineers
Systems and cloud administrators
SREs
Platform architects
Developers involved in application operations
Technical leads wishing to structure their observability

Objectives

Understand the principles of monitoring and observability
Deploy and configure Prometheus
Collect and leverage metrics from infrastructures and applications
Use PromQL to query the data
Create dashboards and visualizations in Grafana
Set up relevant alerting rules
Structure a simple, actionable monitoring chain in a professional environment

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Linux and networking
Familiarity with infrastructure or cloud environments
Basic knowledge of containers or Kubernetes is a plus
Prior exposure to monitoring concepts is useful but not mandatory

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to observability

Differences between monitoring and observability
Logs, metrics and traces
Role of metrics in operations
Place of Prometheus and Grafana in the observability ecosystem
Use cases in modern environments

Module 2: Getting started with Prometheus

Prometheus architecture
Prometheus server and collection model
Jobs, targets and scraping
Basic configuration
Discovering native and exposed metrics

Module 3: Metrics collection and exporters

How exporters work
Collecting system and application metrics
Discovering the main exporters
Best practices for organizing targets
Label management and metric structuring

Module 4: PromQL and data exploitation

Introduction to PromQL
Selection, aggregation and filters
Simple and advanced queries
Using PromQL for operational analysis
Building actionable indicators

Module 5: Alerting with Prometheus

Principles of alerting
Defining alert rules
Structuring thresholds and conditions
Introduction to Alertmanager
Organizing and routing alerts
Best practices to avoid noise

Module 6: Visualization with Grafana

General Grafana architecture
Connecting to Prometheus
Creating dashboards
Panels, variables and visualization organization
Building readable, operations-oriented dashboards

Module 7: Use cases and operational best practices

Aligning a monitoring chain
Correlating metrics and dashboards
Organizing observability in a professional context
Best practices for application and infrastructure monitoring
Practical implementation cases

Documentation

Digital course materials included

Lab / Exercises

This course includes hands-on exercises designed to reinforce your knowledge and apply your skills in real-world professional scenarios.

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Eligible Funding

ITTA is a partner of a continuing education fund dedicated to temporary workers. This fund can subsidize your training, provided that you are subject to the “Service Provision” collective labor agreement (CCT) and meet certain conditions, including having worked at least 88 hours in the past 12 months.

Additional Information

Why has observability become critical?

Modern architectures (microservices, containers, cloud) multiply failure points and make diagnosis more complex. Without rigorous instrumentation, a team wastes considerable time identifying the root cause of an incident. Prometheus and Grafana have established themselves as the go-to pair for collecting, storing and visualizing metrics: Prometheus handles collection and queries through PromQL, Grafana produces readable dashboards that can be shared across all teams.

Positioning in the DevOps ecosystem

This training is aimed at teams that want to professionalize the monitoring of their platforms. It logically complements courses such as Kubernetes Fundamentals (KUB-01), Docker Administration (DOCK-02) or GitLab CI/CD, since these platforms naturally produce metrics consumable by Prometheus. Profiles aiming for the Prometheus Certified Associate certification will find here the essential foundation before taking the dedicated preparation (PRM-10).

Why take this training rather than experiment on your own?

Prometheus and Grafana are free, but architecture and instrumentation choices can have significant consequences: data retention, metric cardinality, federation, high availability. The training saves you months of trial and error by presenting best practices from the start: exporter structure, writing reliable alerts, building dashboards relevant to different audiences (ops, dev, management).

Practical tips to progress after the training

Deploy a Prometheus + Grafana stack on a personal project or home lab to keep practicing. Explore the official exporter library to instrument various components (databases, web servers, systems). Then study the extended ecosystem (Alertmanager, Thanos, Loki, Tempo) that naturally extends Prometheus and Grafana.

FAQ

Do I need to know Kubernetes to attend this training?

No, a general understanding of containers is enough. Kubernetes examples are introduced but not essential.

Is this training oriented toward developers or operations?

Both audiences benefit from it. Developers learn how to instrument their applications; ops teams learn how to monitor infrastructure and alert effectively.

Does Prometheus replace Zabbix, Nagios or Datadog?

Prometheus is particularly suited to cloud native environments and dynamic architectures. It is sometimes used alongside existing tools, sometimes as a replacement. The choice depends on context, existing skills and functional needs.

Does the training prepare for the PCA certification?

It lays the essential foundation. For the official preparation for the Prometheus Certified Associate certification, we recommend the dedicated PRM-10 course.