course 08 · intermediate
Monitoring
Know something is wrong before your users do, and know where to look when it is.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Roadmap
- 9 stages · 29 topics
- Lessons
- 1 of 9 ready
- Done by you
- 0/9 stages
- Before this
- Linux & Bash
- Certificate
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before you start
The Monitoring roadmap
Everything this course covers, in the order you'll learn it. Open a stage to see why it matters and jump to its lesson.
01Observability basicsstart here
The three signals and the questions each one answers.
Lesson 1: Metrics, logs and traces →02Prometheus
The standard for metrics in cloud-native systems.
Lesson 2: Prometheus · coming soon03Grafana
Turn raw metrics into dashboards people actually read.
Lesson 3: Grafana · coming soon04Alerting
Alerts that wake you up only when something is truly broken.
Lesson 4: Alerting · coming soon05Logs
Search every server's logs from one place.
Lesson 5: Logs · coming soon06Tracing
Follow one request through many services.
Lesson 6: Tracing · coming soon07Kubernetes monitoring
Watch the cluster and every pod on it.
Lesson 7: Kubernetes monitoring · coming soon08SLOs & on-call
Decide how reliable is reliable enough, and how to respond when you're not.
Lesson 8: SLOs & on-call · coming soon09Hosted tools
What the paid platforms add, and when they're worth it.
Lesson 9: Hosted tools · coming soonCourse complete · ready for the next one
Stage order follows the community roadmap at roadmap.sh/devops, trimmed to what DevOps work needs.