devops-monitoring

Monitoring distributed systems involves collecting metrics with Prometheus, visualizing them in Grafana dashboards, and configuring alerting rules. This Skill provides end-to-end observability templates, including Prometheus configurations, Grafana dashboards, and Alertmanager setup for cloud-native microservices and Kubernetes deployments.

Key metrics include CPU, memory, request rates, latency, and error rates. This Skill guides identifying critical metrics for your application and infrastructure, then generates Prometheus configurations and Grafana dashboards to visualize them automatically for proactive issue detection.

Alerting uses rules to trigger notifications when metrics cross thresholds. This Skill teaches alerting best practices and provides Alertmanager configurations with templates and runbooks, enabling actionable alerts for faster incident response across hybrid, on-premises, and cloud infrastructures.

Yes. This Skill covers observability for Kubernetes deployments, cloud-native microservices, and hybrid or on-premises infrastructures. It includes instrumentation, metrics collection, logging with ELK or Loki, and tracing with OpenTelemetry, all configured for container environments.

SLIs (Service Level Indicators) measure actual performance; SLOs (Service Level Objectives) set target thresholds. This Skill implements both functional requirements, helping you define reliability targets and validate them against collected metrics for continuous reliability assurance.