Prometheus: Up & Running: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring

by Brian Brazil

Get up to speed with Prometheus, the metrics-based monitoring system used by tens of thousands of organizations in production. This practical guide provides application developers, sysadmins, and DevOps practitioners with a hands-on introduction to the most important aspects of Prometheus, including dashboarding and alerting, direct code instrumentation, and metric collection from third-party systems with exporters.

This open source system has gained popularity over the past few years for good reason. With its simple yet powerful data model and query language, Prometheus does one thing, and it does it well. Author and Prometheus developer Brian Brazil guides you through Prometheus setup, the Node exporter, and the Alertmanager, then demonstrates how to use them for application and infrastructure monitoring.

Know where and how much to apply instrumentation to your application codeIdentify metrics with labels using unique key-value pairsGet an introduction to Grafana, a popular tool for building dashboardsLearn how to use the Node Exporter to monitor your infrastructureUse service discovery to provide different views of your machines and servicesUse Prometheus with Kubernetes and examine exporters you can use with containersConvert data from other monitoring systems into the Prometheus format

Genres: Technology, Programming, Computers, Technical, Software, Nonfiction, Computer Science

583 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 9, 2018

Reviews

[Alex Ott · Rating 4 out of 5]

good intro into Prometheus...

[Elijah Oyekunle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative read.

[Jascha · Rating 3 out of 5]

A generic introduction to Prometheus for beginners. It gives people an idea of what Prometheus is and, mainly, what it is NOT. Examples are very short, hello-world like and don't really cover any real world example. Overall it's like a reference of how to get it up and running and plotting data to Grafana.

Anyone who already know what Prometheus is, move along.

What os really annoying is the fact that in 2021 there are no other books on Prometheus.

[NickGu · Rating 5 out of 5]

The purpose of reading this book is to use Prometheus to add metric to the system. So I didn't read it completely, but focused on the first 12 chapters.
In the content, it is a good introduction from the metric system to Prometheus and then how to use Prometheus. In addition, there is a lot of experience of the author. Until now, when searching for Prometheus-related content, many of them also go to the author's blog.

[Ricardo Hernández · Rating 5 out of 5]

A superb book to guide your knowledge about the quintessential tool for monitoring and alerting: Prometheus. Theory, practice and useful tips make this book a formidable source of training; it has the right amount of technical description, hand-on practices and hacks and advice to fine tune the usage of this tool. Totally recommended.

[Leandro Melendez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy buen libro para entender Prometheus y los detalles alrededor de esta plataforma.
Me faltó que profundizara en algunos de los problemas de Prometheus, pero creo que no es normal que un libro explicando muestre todos los problemas o demasiado énfasis sea hecho.
Muy recomendable!

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good thorough introduction with tips based on field experience

[Stanislav Mekhonoshin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great introduction to Prometheus.

[Adam M · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very good technical manual on the usages of Prometheus to manage infrastructure. If this is a topic that interests you, this is a great introduction into system performance observability.

[Rafa de Castro · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bit basic but a nice intro.

[å¼ é›· · Rating 4 out of 5]

因为文档、博客、讲座很多了，担心没什么东西，结果还是有收获的。

[Semyon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Prometheus was a mistake.

[Jeff Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have little experience in system monitoring. I found this book easy to read and interesting enough to want to continue my journey in learning monitoring. Reading this book was worth my time.

[Vincent · Rating 5 out of 5]

From introduction to caveats and with plenty of heads-up. Great explanations and examples. Good read.

[Federico · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a useful reference to get a general sense of direction in the field.