Summary

Congratulations! In this training, you learned:

  • What Prometheus focuses on and what it tries not to do,
  • How Prometheus collects time series data from targets,
  • How PromQL enables flexible and powerful queries based on the collected data,
  • How Prometheus ties together time series data collection and alerting,
  • How service discovery helps with the scraping and labeling of targets,
  • How to install and use a simple Prometheus setup.

You should now be ready to explain the core principles and features of Prometheus and run Prometheus to collect data from targets.