Practical Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus

This talk introduces practical Prometheus monitoring for Kubernetes and microservices, including application instrumentation, service discovery, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs. It also surveys long-term metrics storage and observability with logs and traces.

Syllabus

Intro
Microservices and classic host/services models
Thoughts and tips
Prometheus inside Kubernetes?
Prometheus: Architecture
Prometheus Terminology: Service Discovery
Overview: kube-prometheus
Install kube-prometheus & Prometheus Operator
Familiarize yourself with the deployment
Alert Manager UI
Grafana dashboards
Deploy the demo app prometheus_demo_service
Monitor the Demo Service
Verify Prometheus Service Monitor targets
kube-state-metrics
Customize kube-prometheus
Golden Signals
Alert Rules in Prometheus Operator
SLA, SLO, SLI
SLOs as code
SLOs with Prometheus
Profiling
Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and Monitoring
Kubernetes Security Monitoring
RBAC & Policies
Resources: Workshops and Trainings