Apr 27
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Master Prometheus monitoring from scratch in this complete 2026 crash course! Learn how to set up Prometheus, write PromQL queries, configure alerting with Alertmanager, and build Grafana dashboards — all with a real Docker Compose demo. In this video, you'll learn: - ✅ Prometheus architecture & how the pull model works - ✅ The 4 metric types: Counter, Gauge, Histogram, Summary - ✅ Setting up a full monitoring stack with Docker Compose - ✅ Writing PromQL queries for CPU, memory, latency & error rates - ✅ Configuring alert rules and Alertmanager with Slack routing - ✅ Building Grafana dashboards from Prometheus data - ✅ Production best practices & avoiding common mistakes ⏰ CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Why Monitoring Matters (The 2AM Problem) 3:35 - What is Prometheus? 5:35 - Prometheus vs Nagios, Zabbix & Datadog 6:30 - Architecture Deep Dive 9:00 - Data Model & Time Series Explained 12:10 - The 4 Metric Types 14:35 - Quick Start with Docker Compose 19:25 - prometheus.yml Configuration 20:05 - Exporters Overview 23:50 - Instrument Your App (Python Demo) 32:15 - PromQL Basics 16:30 - 6 Production PromQL Queries 34:52 - Alert Rules Setup 40:47 - Alertmanager Configuration 46:20 - Grafana Integration & Dashboards 51:15 - Best Practices for Production 54:00 - Summary & Next Steps 🔗 RESOURCES: - GitHub Demo Code: https://github.com/shazforiot/Prometheus-crash-course-for-beginners - Prometheus Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs - Grafana Dashboard 1860 (Node Exporter Full): https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/1860 - ExporterHub: https://exporterhub.io - Thanos (long-term storage): https://thanos.io 📚 RELATED VIDEOS: - Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus Operator https://youtu.be/dk2-_DbWb80 - Docker Full Course: https://youtu.be/iARL7iFyasE 🔔 Subscribe for weekly DevOps tutorials: 📺 Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Thetips4you 🐦 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetips4you 💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetips-4you-48878516b/ #Prometheus #DevOps #Monitoring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- prometheus tutorial,prometheus crash course,prometheus monitoring,promql tutorial, grafana prometheus,prometheus alertmanager,prometheus docker,cloud native monitoring, devops monitoring,kubernetes monitoring,node exporter,time series database, prometheus 2026,monitoring and alerting,site reliability engineering,sre tools, prometheus grafana,infrastructure monitoring,prometheus metrics,observability