Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring ensures the health, performance, and availability of servers, containers, databases, and services. This section covers the Prometheus + Grafana stack, the most popular open-source monitoring solution.

Topics

• Prometheus & Grafana - The default open-source monitoring stack. Organized from basics to advanced patterns:
  • Getting Started - Docker Compose stack, first scrape
  • Instrumentation - metric types, instrumenting an app
  • PromQL - query language and common patterns
  • Alerting - rules, Alertmanager routing
  • Grafana Dashboards - data sources, panels, dashboard design
  • Best Practices - cardinality, recording rules, long-term storage