Course Outline

Introduction to Advanced Alerting

  • Key principles of alerting in IT systems
  • Overview of Prometheus Alertmanager
  • Alerting capabilities in Grafana

Creating Advanced Alerting Rules

  • Defining alerting rules in Prometheus
  • Using labels and annotations for alerts
  • Groupings and silencing strategies

Integrating Alertmanager with External Systems

  • Configuring webhooks for external integrations
  • Integrating with tools like Slack, PagerDuty, and email systems
  • Customizing Alertmanager templates

Automating Responses to Alerts

  • Implementing automated remediation workflows
  • Integrating with orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Kubernetes)
  • Using scripts for automated issue resolution

Visualizing Alerts in Grafana

  • Setting up alert panels in Grafana
  • Customizing alert notifications and thresholds
  • Best practices for monitoring alert status

Managing High-Volume Alerts

  • Handling alert storms effectively
  • Optimizing Prometheus performance for alerting
  • Scalability considerations for Alertmanager

Scaling and Advanced Techniques

  • Distributed alerting setups with Prometheus and Alertmanager
  • Integrating with cloud-based alerting solutions
  • Exploring new features in Grafana and Prometheus ecosystems

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Basic experience with Grafana and Prometheus
  • Understanding of IT monitoring concepts
  • Familiarity with scripting or programming for automation

Audience

  • DevOps engineers
  • Site reliability engineers (SREs)
 14 Hours

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