Making sure your cluster isn't on fire - Hands-on monitoring with Prometheus

• What we'll do
Monitoring cloud native apps creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional monitoring systems struggle with. In this Workshop, Brice Fernandes from Weaveworks will take you through installing and using the open source Prometheus monitoring toolkit to monitor a Kubernetes cluster. You do not need any previous experience with Kubernetes or Prometheus. After this talk, you'll be able to set up a development kubernetes cluster and use Prometheus to monitor your microservices. We'll cover: An introduction to Kubernetes to manage containers; The monitoring maturity model; An overview of whitebox and blackbox monitoring; Monitoring with Prometheus; Using PromQL (the Prometheus Query Language) to monitor your app in a dynamic system.

Typical Duration: 2h30 including a 15min break

Audience level: All levels

Prerequisites: A wifi connected laptop with a terminal and Minikube installed.

About our speaker:
Name: Brice Fernandes

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fractallambda

Bio: Brice fell in love with programming while studying physics and never really looked back since. He has a broad technology background that covers everything from embedded C to backendless browser apps using the trendiest javascript frameworks. He taught Game Development and Functional Programming online and founded his own education platform for developers before joining Weaveworks. He now spends his time making microservices and containers so simple even your cat can deploy and monitor them. Come talk to him about programming, creating closed ecological systems and leatherworking.

• What to bring
laptop with minikube installed (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube)

• Important to know