Prometheus + Grafana Complete Beginner Guide (PDF)

Summary

Unlock a practical, step-by-step beginner guide to real-time monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. Learn core concepts, architecture, and hands-on setup on AWS EC2, including Node Exporter, metrics scraping, alerting basics, and building real dashboards. Access a comprehensive resource that streamlines onboarding, accelerates setup, and helps you move from theory to reliable observability faster than going it alone.

Primary Outcome

Master the fundamentals to deploy Prometheus and Grafana on AWS EC2, set up dashboards, and understand observability end-to-end.

Who This Is For

• Junior DevOps engineers deploying monitoring on AWS for the first time
• Backend engineers preparing for observability/SRE interviews
• Cloud/DevOps engineers implementing Prometheus and Grafana dashboards in production

What You'll Learn

• EC2 setup walkthrough
• Node Exporter explained
• Real-time dashboards & alerting basics

Metadata

Category

Education & Coaching

Creator

Parag Patil

Creator Title

10k+LinkedIn || Software Engineer @AOI || Data Analyst || Job Referrals, Job Alert || Python, Java, JS || Pytest, Playwright, selenium, Locust, Behave, K6 || Jira, Plane.so || AWS, GCP || SQL, PowerBI, Tableau || WP, WIX

Tags

Online Courses, Student Outcomes, Content Delivery, Community

Published

2026-02-18

Last Updated

2026-03-02

Citation

"Prometheus + Grafana Complete Beginner Guide (PDF)" by Parag Patil, PlaybookHub — https://playbooks.rohansingh.io/playbook/prometheus-grafana-beginner-guide-pdf

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