This book about Prometheus, the second project to graduate within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), will help you to crystallize the core fundamentals of monitoring and the approaches available to ensure the required infrastructure visibility. It relies on practical examples, using test environments and diagrams, to communicate knowledge in an easy-to-digest manner.

The content was designed to ensure that all the important Prometheus stack concepts are tackled. Our main goal during the writing process was to aim the book at our past selves and ensure that they would have everything they needed to know about this technology in this book.

From running one Prometheus server, to what scaling options are available, from creating and testing alerting rules, to templating slack notifications; and from useful dashboards, to automating target discovery; many other topics will be explained to ensure a full knowledge base on infrastructure monitoring using Prometheus as its cornerstone.