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DevOps Troubleshooting: Using Monitoring and Logging

In this lab, you’ll practice your monitoring and logging skills. When you’re finished, you’ll have the required knowledge to set-up metrics, log collection and alerting for your workloads.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 25m
Published
Clock icon Dec 10, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Monitor Workloads with Prometheus and Grafana

    You will configure Prometheus to scrape metrics from your server, and you will create a Grafana dashboard to visualize CPU and memory usage. You will also configure an alert rule in Prometheus for high CPU usage.

  3. Challenge

    Implement Logging Using the ELK Stack

    Using Logstash, you will index web server logs to Elasticsearch, and create a Kibana dashboard to visualize the log data.

  4. Challenge

    Set up Monitoring and Logging for Jenkins

    You will expose Jenkins metrics and logs and then use Grafana and Kibana to visualize the CD/CI data. You will also configure Prometheus alerts to trigger when a pipeline fails.

  5. Challenge

    Integrate Monitoring and Logging into DevOps Pipelines

    To ensure all the applications within your systems have enough data for you to identify issues in a timely manner and be able to troubleshoot them, you will integrate monitoring and logging as part of your CI/CD pipelines.

  6. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

Antonio is a DevOps Engineer who loves to experiment with cutting-edge technologies.

What's a lab?

Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.

Provided environment for hands-on practice

We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.

Guided walkthrough

Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

Did you know?

On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.