Building Effective Dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus

• Basic understanding of Grafana and Prometheus
• Familiarity with IT monitoring concepts

Audience

• DevOps engineers
• Site reliability engineers (SREs)

Grafana and Prometheus are widely used for monitoring and visualization. This course focuses on building actionable, effective dashboards tailored for operational and business needs. Participants will learn to leverage advanced features like templating and alerting to enhance observability and responsiveness.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level DevOps and SRE professionals who wish to create impactful dashboards and optimize their monitoring practices using Grafana and Prometheus.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand best practices for designing effective dashboards.
• Create and configure advanced Grafana dashboard elements.
• Leverage Grafana templating for dynamic and reusable dashboards.
• Implement alerting mechanisms to enhance operational awareness.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction to Dashboards and Visualization

• Importance of dashboards in monitoring
• Overview of Grafana and its visualization capabilities
• Key features and tools for building dashboards

Understanding Prometheus Data

• Querying data using PromQL
• Integrating Prometheus with Grafana
• Best practices for managing Prometheus data sources

Building Basic Dashboards

• Creating dashboards and adding panels
• Configuring data sources and queries
• Using visualization types effectively

Advanced Dashboard Design

• Using Grafana templating for dynamic dashboards
• Customizing dashboards with variables
• Dashboard layout and design best practices

Alerting and Notifications

• Setting up alerts in Grafana
• Configuring notification channels
• Best practices for actionable alerting

Optimizing Dashboard Performance

• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks
• Reducing query load on Prometheus
• Enhancing dashboard responsiveness

Scaling and Sharing Dashboards

• Collaborating and sharing dashboards within teams
• Integrating Grafana with other tools
• Scaling Grafana for enterprise-level use

Summary and Next Steps