Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance

Introduction

• Introduction to Prometheus and Grafana

1. Getting Started with Prometheus and Grafana

• Introduction to observability
• Introduction to dashboarding
• Grafana overview and features
• Prometheus overview
• Grafana user interface overview

3. Building Blocks for Mastering Grafana

• Grafana data sources
• Grafana dashboards
• Grafana panels
• Grafana queries
• Grafana variables
• Grafana transformations
• Grafana annotations
• Grafana plugins

4. Grafana Panels

• Panel options
• Panel overrides
• The graph panel
• The stats panel
• The gauge panel
• The heatmap panel

5. How to Design Practical Dashboards

• Sample application
• Structure and layout
• Accessibility and presentation
• Choosing the right panels
• Naming and context

6. Alerts

• Grafana Alerts introduction
• Grafana Alerts states
• Grafana Alert rules
• Lab: Creating a simple alert

7. Generative AI and LLMs

• Introduction to generative AI
• How AI can help solve challenges in Grafana
• Grafana and LLMs: Current features
• The role of context awareness: RAG and MCPs
• Lab 1: An LLM assistant for troubleshooting
• Lab 2: Upgrading the assistant with MCP

8. Scaling Grafana Infrastructure with Terraform

• Introduction to IaC
• Grafana with Terraform overview
• Installing and configure the Grafana provider
• Defining a dashboard with Terraform

9. Grafana Administration

• The configuration files
• User and organization management
• Plugin management

Conclusion

• Next steps