Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is designed for advanced-level DevOps and SRE professionals seeking to enhance their alerting and automation skills using Grafana and Prometheus.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create and manage advanced alerting rules in Prometheus.
• Integrate Prometheus Alertmanager with external tools using webhooks.
• Automate responses to alerts to resolve issues more quickly.
• Use Grafana to effectively visualise and manage alerts.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or onsite) is designed for advanced-level platform engineers and DevOps professionals seeking to master scaling applications using microservices and Kubernetes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design and implement scalable microservices architectures.
• Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes clusters.
• Utilise Helm charts for efficient service deployment.
• Monitor and maintain the health of microservices in production.
• Apply best practices for security and compliance within a Kubernetes environment.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is aimed at intermediate-level DevOps and SRE professionals who wish to create impactful dashboards and optimise their monitoring practices using Grafana and Prometheus.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand best practices for designing effective dashboards.
• Create and configure advanced Grafana dashboard elements.
• Leverage Grafana templating for dynamic and reusable dashboards.
• Implement alerting mechanisms to enhance operational awareness.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is aimed at intermediate-level developers and DevOps engineers who wish to instrument their applications to export and monitor custom metrics effectively using Prometheus and Grafana.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance of custom metrics for application monitoring.
• Instrument applications to export custom metrics for Prometheus.
• Create and configure dashboards in Grafana to visualise custom metrics.
• Apply best practices for integrating monitoring into the development lifecycle.

DO180 provides an introduction to containers, the fundamentals of Kubernetes, and key concepts of the Red Hat OpenShift platform, with a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on skills.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or on-site) is designed for technical professionals at beginner to intermediate levels who wish to master container workflows, understand Kubernetes primitives, and learn how to deploy and operate applications on OpenShift.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Build and manage container images and registries, applying best practices to ensure reproducibility and security.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes objects such as pods, deployments, and services within the OpenShift environment.
• Utilise OpenShift features, including routes, buildconfigs, and the web console, to streamline application delivery.
• Implement persistent storage, configuration management, and secrets handling to support stateful workloads.
• Apply foundational security measures, role-based access control (RBAC), and monitoring practices to maintain healthy clusters and applications.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and group discussions.
• Daily hands-on labs conducted in a live OpenShift environment.
• Scenario-driven exercises and troubleshooting workshops.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised version of this training, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level IT professionals and DevOps practitioners who wish to learn the basics of Grafana and Prometheus.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and key features of Grafana and Prometheus.
• Install and configure Grafana and Prometheus on a Linux environment.
• Set up basic data sources and dashboards in Grafana.
• Monitor system metrics and visualise data using Prometheus.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level cloud and DevOps engineers who wish to enhance cloud observability using Grafana and Prometheus.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of integrating Grafana and Prometheus with cloud platforms.
• Set up Prometheus for monitoring cloud-based resources.
• Configure Grafana to visualise cloud service metrics.
• Leverage cloud-native tools and integrations to support monitoring scalability.

Grafana and Prometheus are industry-standard tools used to monitor, visualise, and alert on IT infrastructure and application metrics through real-time dashboards and integrations.

This instructor-led, live training (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate to advanced IT professionals who wish to integrate Grafana with Prometheus and multiple data sources, and build actionable visualisations and alerts across distributed systems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Grafana and Prometheus in production-ready setups.
• Integrate multiple data sources, including SQL, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and cloud APIs.
• Create advanced dashboards with variables, templating, transformations, and alerts.
• Apply best practices in data modelling, performance tuning, and user access control.

Course Format

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Abundant exercises and practice opportunities.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

• To request a customised training session for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Helm to streamline the process of installing and managing Kubernetes applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Helm.
• Create reproducible builds of Kubernetes applications.
• Share applications as Helm charts.
• Run third-party applications saved as Helm charts.
• Manage releases of Helm packages.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level system administrators and DevOps engineers who wish to develop core monitoring skills using Grafana and Prometheus.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and importance of monitoring in IT environments.
• Install and configure Grafana and Prometheus for basic monitoring tasks.
• Create simple dashboards and alerts to visualise system performance.
• Apply best practices for monitoring system availability and performance.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is designed for beginner to intermediate-level software developers and DevOps professionals who want to learn how to set up and manage a local Kubernetes environment using Minikube.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Minikube on their local machine.
• Grasp the core concepts and architecture of Kubernetes.
• Deploy and manage containers using kubectl and the Minikube dashboard.
• Set up persistent storage and networking solutions for Kubernetes.
• Leverage Minikube for developing, testing, and debugging applications.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level developers and DevOps engineers who wish to incorporate Minikube into their development workflows.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up and manage a local Kubernetes environment using Minikube.
• Understand how to deploy, manage, and debug applications on Minikube.
• Integrate Minikube into their continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Optimise their development processes by leveraging Minikube's advanced features.
• Apply best practices for local Kubernetes development.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (either online or on-site) is designed for advanced-level Kubernetes administrators and DevOps engineers who wish to enhance their monitoring skills for Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus and Grafana.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Prometheus and Grafana for Kubernetes monitoring.
• Monitor key metrics across pods, nodes, and services.
• Create dynamic dashboards to visualise cluster health and performance.
• Implement alerting strategies for proactive issue resolution.
• Apply best practices for scaling monitoring solutions within Kubernetes environments.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or on-site) is tailored for system administrators and DevOps engineers who wish to use Prometheus to monitor systems and applications either natively or through highly dynamic microservices running in a cloud environment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Prometheus.
• Understand the features, architecture, and core concepts of Prometheus.
• Learn how to query data using PromQL.
• Build visualisations and dashboards with Grafana.
• Configure systems monitoring and alerting rules.
• Analyse and optimise systems and application performance.
• Enable secure integration with remote endpoints and existing systems.

This instructor-led, live training in New Zealand (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level DevOps engineers and SREs who wish to manage and scale Prometheus and Grafana for large environments effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Architect Prometheus and Grafana for large-scale and distributed environments.
• Optimise Prometheus performance for high-traffic systems.
• Configure Grafana for large datasets and complex visualisations.
• Implement advanced troubleshooting and scalability strategies.