Prabhat Korshub Blogs

  Introduction to Prometheus & Grafana Bootcamp In today’s fast-paced DevOps world, monitoring is not optional—it’s essential . The success of modern infrastructure depends on visibility, reliability, and performance. That’s where Prometheus and Grafana come in—the most powerful open-source tools used by DevOps engineers and SREs worldwide. This bootcamp introduces you to everything you need to build, monitor, and maintain resilient systems in 2025 and beyond. What is Prometheus? Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit originally developed by SoundCloud. It’s designed to collect metrics, store them efficiently as time-series data, and trigger alerts when something goes wrong. It’s lightweight, scalable, and widely adopted by Kubernetes environments, making it a go-to choice for cloud-native monitoring. What is Grafana? Grafana is the visual layer of observability—it turns raw data into actionable insights. With stunning dashboards, real-time gra...

  🔍 Introduction Infrastructure monitoring is like the health monitor for your servers, applications, and services. It lets you know when things go wrong before your users do. And if you’re in DevOps, Prometheus and Grafana are the two tools you must master. In this complete guide, we’ll take you from zero to hero in Prometheus and Grafana — from basic installation to advanced visualization and alerting. Ready to take your DevOps monitoring skills to the next level? Let’s go! 🚀 Getting Started with Prometheus What is Prometheus? Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit built originally at SoundCloud. It’s designed for reliability and scalability , making it perfect for dynamic cloud environments. Core Features A powerful time series database Pull-based model over HTTP PromQL – a flexible query language Integrated Alertmanager Service discovery integrations (Kubernetes, EC2, etc.) Prometheus Architecture Prometheus Server ...