Observability Expertise Demand is Rising.
Are You Ready?
Linux Foundation Education has relaunched Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241), a fully updated, hands-on course built to help cloud native professionals stay ahead of the curve. Whether you’re a DevOps engineer, SRE, or system administrator, this course is a smart investment in your future. Observability skills are in high demand across modern infrastructure teams. Learn the tools, techniques, and best practices that will take your monitoring capabilities—and your career—to the next level.
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In today’s infrastructure landscape, turning data into actionable insight isn’t optional—it’s essential. Prometheus is the standard for monitoring cloud native applications, and Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241) gives you the practical experience to use it confidently in real-world environments.
What you’ll learn:
- How to set up, scale, and operate Prometheus in production
- Confidence querying with PromQL to surface the right metrics
- Skills to monitor containers, instrument services, and build custom exporters
- Experience building dashboards, defining alerts, and running Prometheus reliably
- Insight into Prometheus with Kubernetes, remote storage, and other key integrations
This course is designed for real-world impact. You’ll learn how to catch issues before they escalate, improve reliability and bake observability into every layer of your stack. It’s practical, hands-on training for high-impact, cloud native roles.
Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241) is a 25-hour, self-paced, e-Learning course with hands-on labs. Participants also have access to our discussion forum, enabling them to interact with fellow students and experts. When you successfully complete the course you will receive a digital badge and certificate of completion to showcase your skills.
Course topics include:
- Observability
- Running and Setting Up Prometheus
- Basic Querying
- Dashboarding
- Monitoring Host Metrics
- Monitoring Container Metrics
- Instrumenting Code
- Building Exporters
- Advanced Querying
- Relabeling
- Service Discovery
- Blackbox Monitoring
- Pushing Data
- Alerting
- Making Prometheus Highly Available
- Recording Rules
- Scaling Prometheus Deployments
- Local Storage
- Remote Storage Integrations
- Transitioning From and Integrating with Other Monitoring Systems
- Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus
- Prometheus and Kubernetes
