Application Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Reliable applications depend on real-time visibility into system health, performance, and infrastructure bottlenecks. This text-based course teaches you how to implement modern observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana. You will gain a solid foundation in application monitoring, starting from core terminology and metric types to practical alerting and dashboard construction for web services, databases, and message queues. What you'll learn: Learn essential observability concepts, metric types, and time-series data structures. Configure Prometheus to scrape metrics from services, databases, and cache layers. Design dynamic Grafana dashboards to visualize application performance. Set up automated alerting rules and notification pipelines for proactive incident response. Understand modern container metrics and foundational OpenTelemetry standards. The course begins with core definitions and architectural principles before guiding you through written explanations and practical configuration scenarios. You will progress from fundamental metric collection to building structured monitoring setups for full-stack application architectures. Designed specifically for beginners, developers, and aspiring DevOps engineers, this course requires no prior experience with Prometheus or Grafana. Start reading today to build dependable, observable application systems.