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The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam demonstrates an engineers foundational knowledge of observability and skills using Prometheus, the open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Learn how to monitor real-world systems with Prometheus—track containers, catch issues early, use service discovery, and build production-grade observability into your Kubernetes stack with Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241).

Purchase the course + PCA for $299 OR get a subscription with unlimited access to all e-learning courses and SkillCreds for $495!

Who Is It For

The LFS241 course is built for DevOps engineers, SREs, and system admins ready to level up observability skills and get Prometheus-ready for high-impact roles in modern, cloud-native environments. The PCA is a pre-professional certification designed for an engineer or application developer with special interests in observability and monitoring.

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What You’ll Learn

Walk away knowing how to monitor real-world systems with Prometheus—track containers, catch issues early, use service discovery, and build production-grade observability into your Kubernetes stack.

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What It Demonstrates

The PCA demonstrates a candidate's understanding of best practices for monitoring cloud native applications and infrastructure using Prometheus.

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Course Outline

Chapter 1. Course Introduction

Chapter 2. Introduction to Observability

Chapter 3. Introduction to Prometheus

Chapter 4. Installing and Setting Up Prometheus

Chapter 5. Basic Querying

Chapter 6. Dashboarding

Chapter 7. Monitoring Host Metrics

Chapter 8. Monitoring Container Metrics

Chapter 9. Instrumenting Code

Chapter 10. Building Exporters

Chapter 11. Advanced Querying

Chapter 12. Relabeling

Chapter 13. Service Discovery

Chapter 14. Blackbox Monitoring

Chapter 15. Pushing Data

Chapter 16. Alerting

Chapter 17. Making Prometheus Highly Available

Chapter 18. Recording Rules

Chapter 19. Scaling Prometheus Deployments

Chapter 20. Local Storage

Chapter 21. Remote Storage Integrations

Chapter 22. Transitioning From and Integration with Other Monitoring Systems

Chapter 23. Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus

Chapter 24. Prometheus and Kubernetes

Exam Domains & Competencies

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Observability Concepts18%

Metrics
Understand logs and events
Tracing and Spans
Push vs Pull
Service Discovery
Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs

Prometheus Fundamentals20%

System Architecture
Configuration and Scraping
Understanding Prometheus Limitations
Data Model and Labels
Exposition Format

PromQL28%

Selecting Data
Rates and Derivatives
Aggregating over time
Aggregating over dimensions
Binary operators
Histograms
Timestamp Metrics

Instrumentation and Exporters16%

Client Libraries
Instrumentation
Exporters
Structuring and naming metrics

Alerting & Dashboarding18%

Dashboarding basics
Configuring Alerting rules
Understand and Use Alertmanager
Alerting basics (when, what, and why)

Exam Details & Resources

This exam is an online, proctored, multiple-choice exam.

Lab Info

To successfully complete the lab exercises in LFS241, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Detailed instructions to set up your lab environment are provided in the course.
If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider, or if the cloud provider’s terms and conditions change.

Prerequisites

Before starting LFS241, you should be familiar with: