Overall Objectives

Compiled Learning Objectives

Monitoring

• Define meaningful user-facing metrics.
• Define useful metrics to help diagnose a root-cause of a user-facing issue.
• Instrument a producer and consumer to provide Prometheus metrics.
• Collect Prometheus metrics from a Kafka queue.
• Run Prometheus and Grafana.
• Scrape Prometheus metrics from services into Prometheus.

Alerting

• Identify and graph metrics to indicate specific problems.
• Create an alert triggered by a specific problem.