Advanced Alerting and Automation with Grafana and Prometheus

• 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)

Grafana and Prometheus offer powerful capabilities for advanced alerting and automation in IT environments. This course explores how to create complex alerting rules, integrate with external systems via webhooks, and implement automated responses using Prometheus Alertmanager and Grafana.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level DevOps and SRE professionals who wish to enhance their alerting and automation skills with Grafana and Prometheus.

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

• Create and manage advanced alerting rules in Prometheus.
• Integrate Prometheus Alertmanager with external tools using webhooks.
• Automate responses to alerts for faster issue resolution.
• Use Grafana to visualize and manage alerts effectively.

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 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