Course description

The Monitoring, Logging, and Analytics course provides essential knowledge and practical skills for tracking and analyzing the performance, health, and behavior of applications and infrastructure in modern cloud-native environments. As organizations scale, ensuring application reliability and quick issue resolution becomes crucial. This course will teach you how to implement effective monitoring, logging, and analytics practices to maintain high system availability and performance. You will learn how to use industry-leading tools such as Prometheus for monitoring, Grafana for creating dashboards and visualizing metrics, and the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and log analysis. The course will guide you through setting up monitoring alerts, aggregating logs, and visualizing system data in real-time, enabling you to detect anomalies, optimize performance, and troubleshoot issues effectively. By the end of this course, you will have hands-on experience in configuring and using monitoring, logging, and analytics solutions, ensuring that you can monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize both applications and infrastructure in production environments.

What will i learn?

  • Implement Monitoring Solutions: Understand how to set up and configure monitoring tools like Prometheus to track system performance, application metrics, and infrastructure health in real-time
  • Set Up and Use Grafana: Gain practical experience in using Grafana to create dynamic dashboards for visualizing metrics, performance data, and system health, and learn how to set up alerts to proactively manage system performance
  • Leverage the ELK Stack for Logging: Learn how to configure and use the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for collecting, aggregating, and visualizing logs from distributed systems, making it easier to troubleshoot and analyze logs in one place
  • Analyze and Interpret Data: Develop the skills to analyze collected data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and issues within your infrastructure or applications, and use these insights to drive improvements.
  • Apply Best Practices for Observability: Understand the best practices for establishing robust monitoring, logging, and analytics workflows in your environment to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of applications and services.
  • Troubleshoot Issues Proactively: Learn how to use monitoring and logging data to identify and resolve issues before they affect your system’s performance, ensuring smoother operations and reduced downtime

Requirements

  • Basic Understanding of IT Infrastructure: Familiarity with concepts such as servers, networks, databases, and cloud computing will be helpful, but no prior experience with monitoring or logging is required.
  • Familiarity with Linux Command Line: Basic knowledge of Linux command line operations will help you follow along more easily, as many monitoring and logging tools interact with the system at this level.
  • Understanding of Basic System Administration: While not mandatory, knowledge of managing systems, services, and processes will be beneficial, as this course involves monitoring and analyzing system health and performance.
  • A Laptop or Desktop with Administrative Access: You will need administrative access to your machine to install monitoring, logging, and analytics tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. The course will guide you through the installation process.
  • No Prior Experience with Monitoring Tools Required: This course is designed for beginners. You will learn everything you need to know about monitoring, logging, and analytics from scratch, with step-by-step instructions

Frequently asked question

Monitoring refers to the continuous tracking of system performance, metrics, and uptime to ensure everything is functioning properly. Logging involves capturing detailed logs of events and transactions within applications or infrastructure, which helps in diagnosing issues. Analytics, on the other hand, involves analyzing the collected data to gain insights into system behavior, performance trends, and potential bottlenecks, helping to make data-driven decisions for optimization.

No, this course is designed for both beginners and those with some experience in IT operations. While prior knowledge of basic IT concepts is helpful, we will guide you through the foundational tools and practices used in monitoring, logging, and analytics, including Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack, providing hands-on training from the ground up.

In this course, you will learn to use popular monitoring, logging, and analytics tools such as Prometheus for monitoring metrics, Grafana for data visualization and dashboard creation, and the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging, search, and visualization. You will also gain exposure to other complementary tools for improving system observability.

This course will equip you with critical skills in system observability, which are highly valued in roles such as DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and IT Operations Manager. With expertise in monitoring, logging, and analytics, you will be able to proactively manage and troubleshoot systems, improving application performance, reliability, and uptime. These skills are in high demand in today’s data-driven, cloud-native environments.

Yes, this course is highly practical and includes hands-on labs where you will configure monitoring and logging tools, create dashboards, and analyze metrics and logs in real-time. You will work on real-world scenarios to gain experience with the tools and techniques used by industry professionals to monitor, log, and analyze system data in production environments.

Admin Account

$10

Lectures

5

Quizzes

5

Skill level

Intermediate

Expiry period

1 Months

Certificate

Yes

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