Monitoring and Observability

In the Service Reliability Hierarchy, developing monitoring systems is the most essential activity. Therefore, our very first workshop series will be dedicated to Monitoring and Observability

This hands-on workshop series will provide you with the foundational knowledge to build a robust monitoring system that accurately reflects the state of your applications.

We will divide the series in three main topics:

  • Monitoring Fundamentals
  • Log Monitoring
  • Observability

Monitoring Fundamentals

Program
  1. Introduction
    1. What is monitoring?
    2. Good monitoring
    3. Monitoring methods
    4. Types of metrics
    5. Monitoring Systems
  2. Prometheus
    1. Architecture
    2. Installation
    3. Exporters
    4. Instrumentation
    5. PromQL
  1. Alerts and Notifications
    1. Alertmanager Setup
    2. Alerting Rules
    3. Receivers
  2. Grafana
    1. Installation and Setup
    2. Dashboards
    3. Querying Data
    4. Visualizations
    5. Alerting
Workshop details
Fundamentals part 1 - March 21

Topics: Introduction, Prometheus

Fundamentals part 2 - April 11

Topics: Alerts and Notifications, Grafana

Location: Ask Phill HQ, 's-Gravenhekje 1a, 3e verdieping, 1011 TG Amsterdam