• Understand Prometheus monitoring and alerting concepts.

• Configure Prometheus and collect metrics from monitored systems.

• Use PromQL to query time-series data.

• Create alerting rules to detect system and application issues.

• Configure Alertmanager to route notifications.

• Understand alert grouping, deduplication, silencing, and inhibition.

• Visualize Prometheus metrics using Grafana.

Module 1: Introduction to Prometheus

• Welcome to Advanced Prometheus Alerting and Monitoring

• Why Monitoring Matters in Modern Software Systems

• A Guide to Monitoring with Prometheus

• Installing Prometheus on Linux environment

• Prometheus Best Practices

• Hands-On-Learning: Investigating an Outage with Prometheus

Module 2: From Queries to Alerts: Unlocking the Power of Prometheus

• Getting Started with PromQL

• Prometheus Alerting Rules

• Prometheus Alert Manager Setup in Linux

• A Beginner’s Guide to PromQL

• Hands-On-Learning: Write PromQL Queries and Create Your First Alerts

Module 3: From Metrics to Dashboards: Visualizing Prometheus Data with Grafana

• Connecting Grafana to Prometheus

• Building Your First Dashboard

• Bringing It All Together

• Course Wrap-Up

• Dashboard Design Best Practices

• Advanced Prometheus Alerting and Monitoring

• Hands-On-Learning: Designing a Grafana Dashboard for System Health

• Project: Full Monitoring Stack for a Demo Application

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Course Completion Certificate by Network Binary

• Installing and configuring Prometheus in a Linux environment.

• Writing PromQL queries to analyse metrics.

• Creating Prometheus alerting rules.

• Setting up Alertmanager.

• Configuring notifications and alert handling.

• Connecting Prometheus to Grafana.

• Creating dashboards for system health.

• Investigating an outage using Prometheus metrics.

• DevOps Engineers

• Cloud Engineers

• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)

• System administrators

• IT professionals interested in monitoring and alerting with Prometheus

• Developers who want to improve monitoring of applications in production environments.

• Basic Linux knowledge is recommended.

• Basic understanding of cloud environments and containerization tools such as Docker or Kubernetes is recommended.

• Previous Prometheus experience is not required for the Udemy course.

• Familiarity with Prometheus fundamentals and basic alerting concepts is helpful but not mandatory for the Coursera course.