The relationship between Jobs and Instances as Prometheus scraping units, auto-generated labels and metrics, and Part 02 recap
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The relationship between Jobs and Instances as Prometheus scraping units, auto-generated labels and metrics, and Part 02 recap
Characteristics and selection criteria for the four metric types — Counter, Gauge, Histogram, and Summary
The structure of Prometheus time series, metric naming, labels, cardinality, and how samples are stored
Prometheus components, Pull vs Push model, Grafana's role, and the full data flow diagram
The cost of outages, the 3 pillars of observability, and an overview of the Prometheus + Grafana ecosystem