Name: Introduction to Prometheus
Author: Julius Volz

Introduction to Prometheus

Training Overview
Introduction
Prerequisites
Prometheus: An Overview
What is Prometheus?
What is Prometheus not?
System Architecture
Key Features and Selling Points
Data Model
Metrics Transfer Format
Query Language
Integrated Alerting
Service Discovery Integration
Simple Operation
Efficient Implementation
Knowledge Check
Installing and Setting Up Prometheus
Downloading Prometheus
Configuring Prometheus
Starting Prometheus
Viewing Monitored Targets
Using the Expression Browser
Knowledge Check
Review and Outlook
Summary
Further Steps

Downloading Prometheus

Let's download Prometheus to our Linux machine.

NOTE: If you don't have a Linux machine, you can also run these steps in a cloud-based environment for free using Gitpod, by opening an empty starter workspace:

Create a directory for the workshop files:

mkdir $HOME/workshop

Change to it:

cd $HOME/workshop

Download Prometheus 2.48.1 for Linux (see the download page for other versions):

wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.48.1/prometheus-2.48.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Extract the tarball:

tar xvfz prometheus-2.48.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Change into the extracted directory:

cd prometheus-2.48.1.linux-amd64