Monitoring with Prometheus for Docker Environments

Explore the fundamentals of Prometheus, an opinionated metrics collection and monitoring system designed for modern workloads like containers and microservices. Learn about its unique design principles and how they apply to dockerized applications from Prometheus co-founder Julius Volz. Discover the system's architecture, data model, query language, and operational simplicity. Gain insights into Prometheus' local storage, service discovery, and Docker metrics. Watch a live demonstration of Prometheus monitoring a Docker Swarm cluster, and understand how this tool can benefit both newcomers and experienced professionals in container monitoring.

Intro
What is Prometheus
Logging and Tracing
History
Why build Prometheus
Prometheus Architecture
Data Model
Metric Names
Query Language
Grouping
Query Time
Expression Browser
Graphing
Alerting
Operational Simplicity
Local Storage
Prometheus 16 ReadWrite
Prometheus 16 Service Discovery
Docker Prometheus Metrics
Demo
Docker Swarm
Prometheus Sessions