Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus

Training Overview
Introduction
Prerequisites
Monitoring and Debugging Overview
Motivation
Overview
Web Status Pages
Overview
Target Scrape Status
Service Discovery Status
TSDB Status Information
Knowledge Check
Logs
Overview
Standard Error Logs
Query Log
Active Queries Log
Knowledge Check
Metrics-Based Meta-Monitoring
Overview
Prometheus' Own Metrics
Meta-Monitoring Architecture
Alerting Rule Examples
End-to-End Watchdog Alerts
Knowledge Check
Profiling
Overview
Profiling Heap Memory Usage
Profiling CPU Usage
Inspecting Goroutine States
Knowledge Check
Review and Outlook
Summary
Further Steps

Prerequisites

This section outlines the software and experience prerequisites for the workshop.

Software requirements

This training explains debugging and monitoring techniques without explicit interactive exercises, so no software setup is required. However, it can be useful to have access to a Prometheus server and a Go development environment to try out some of the mentioned techniques yourself.

Required experience

To follow this training, the following experience is helpful:

Basic knowledge of Unix / Linux server administration,
A basic understanding of Prometheus-based monitoring.
A basic understanding of Prometheus-based alerting.