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Prometheus Alerting and Monitoring

Learn and Build Your First Prometheus Alerting and Monitoring System for Your Infrastructure Today
4.7 ★★★★★17,615 studentsCreated by Sean BradleyLast updated Nov 3, 2025🌐 English

What you'll learn

Install Prometheus and we see it working
Build a bare bones Prometheus server from scratch, in the cloud.
Learn how to set it up as a service so that it is always running in the background
Configure it to be behind a Nginx Reverse Proxy
Configure a domain name and add SSL to ensure transport layer encryption for the user interface
Add Basic Authentication to restrict user access
Install several Node-Exporters, local and external, manage there firewall rules and compare the differences
Learn the basics of querying metrics from simple metrics, instant vectors, range vectors, functions, aggregates and sub queries
Create custom metrics from complicated queries and save them as Recording Rules
Create Alerting Rules and demonstrate Inactive, Pending and Firing states
Setup a SMTP server to send email alerts
Configure Alert Manager to Send Alerts from Prometheus
Install Grafana
Setup the Prometheus Datasource inside Grafana
Setup Prometheus Dashboards for the main Prometheus service and Node exporters

Requirements

Basic Linux Experience
All commands entered during the lectures are provided in the corresponding resources
You have the choice of using dedicated hardware, cloud or locally hosted VMs. In this course, I predominantly use an unrestricted fresh install of Ubuntu in the cloud.

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Sarah J.
★★★★★2 weeks ago

This course was absolutely amazing! The instructor explained everything clearly and the projects were very helpful.

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Michael T.
★★★★1 month ago

Great content, highly recommended for beginners. Just wish there were more practice exercises.

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David K.
★★★★★2 months ago

Best course on this topic I've taken so far. Worth every penny (even better since I got it for free!).

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