← Back to courses
Cloud & DevOps
Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
Six weeks on metrics, PromQL and alerting
A six-week classroom course that follows the five domains of the Linux Foundation's Prometheus Certified Associate exam: observability concepts, Prometheus fundamentals, PromQL, instrumentation and exporters, and alerting and dashboarding. The exam fee is not included.
6Modules
IntermediateLevel
6 weeksDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Run Prometheus and scrape targets
Answer operational questions in PromQL
Instrument an application and use exporters
Write alerting rules and route them with Alertmanager
Course outline
01
Observability concepts: metrics, logs, traces, push vs pull, SLOs (18%)
02
Prometheus fundamentals: architecture, configuration, scraping and the data model (20%)
03
PromQL: selecting data, rates and aggregation (28%)
04
PromQL: binary operators, histograms and timestamps
05
Instrumentation and exporters (16%)
06
Alerting and dashboarding: alerting rules, Alertmanager and dashboards (18%)
Tools you will use
PrometheusAlertmanagerGrafanaLinux
What you need
Basic Linux command line