Skill · Observability · Observe a service and its platform
Build a dashboard that answers an operations question
Deploy Grafana, connect it to Prometheus and build a dashboard that answers an operations question, provisioned as code.
Start lesson 1The Observability domain
- 1 lesson
- ~1 h 10 of reading
- 5 quizzes
- 0 proof lab
The path
Where it comes from, where it leads
What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.
Before · 1 prerequisite
This skill, for you
Build a dashboard that answers an operations question
Computing
It unlocks · nothing yet
No other skill requires it: it is an end-of-path skill.
The path through the foundations From the most upstream foundation to this skill: what is in place, what remains to read.
Lessons
How to learn it
1 lesson, about ~1 h 10, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
1 lesson · ~1 h 10
- 1Tableaux de bord Grafana (in French)· 70 min
Beyond the lessons
Assess, practise, pass the proof
Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.
Assess yourself
5 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Practice
No guided lab
No guided lab practices it yet.
Proof
No proof
Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.
Apply it on real infrastructure
- Grafana : créer des panels et choisir la bonne visualisation (in French)
- Grafana : rendre un dashboard dynamique avec les variables (in French)
- Grafana : provisionner datasources et dashboards as-code (GitOps) (in French)
- Dashboards utiles : concevoir des tableaux de bord qui servent au diagnostic (in French)
Hands-on lessons: their labs count as practice and their quizzes assess you, without being required to acquire it.
Going further
- Grafana : créer des dashboards et configurer l'alerting (in French)
- Golden Signals, RED, USE : choisir quoi mesurer (in French)
Reference pages: they support the skill without teaching it, and do not count in your journey.
Prepare the environment
- Setup : Minikube, Helm et kubectl (in French)
- Application démo : OpenTelemetry Demo (in French)
- Le lab Kubernetes local de la formation Observabilité (in French)
To do before the labs: these pages do not teach the skill, they set up what you need to practice it.
Placement test
Preparing the questions…
Your answers in detail
For each question asked: your answer, the correct answer, its explanation and the page to reread.
Around it
Who requires it, who teaches it
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