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Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) CERTIFICATION Prometheus Certified Associate

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Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate PCA Beta

Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Certification

Exam Brief

  • Duration - 90 minutes
  • Cost - $250, with a free retake within the year. This registration is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase, or when your corporate subscription expires (whichever happens first).
  • Certification validity: three (3) years

Prometheus Certified Associate Beta exam

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PCA repo topics overview

Observability Concepts - 18%

  1. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observability-101-terminology-and-concepts/
  2. https://opensource.com/article/19/10/open-source-observability-kubernetes

Prometheus Fundamentals - 20%

PromQL- 28%

Selecting Data

  1. Promlabs blog selecting data in promql

Rates and Derivatives

Aggregating over time

Agreegating over Dimension

Binary Operators

Histograms

Timestamp Metrics

  1. Promql for humans
  2. Promql cheat sheet

Instrumentation and Exporters 16%](#Instrumentation and Exporters---16)

Alerting & Dashboarding 18%](#Alerting-and-Dashboarding---18)

helpful resources

Discussions

  1. PCA-BETA Discord

Books

  • Prometheus: Up & Running: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring
  • Monitoring with Prometheus by James Turnball

Training

  1. Linux Foundation official course LFS241 monitoring systems and services with prometheus
  2. PluralSight/acloud guru Prometheus deep dive

Interactive Scenarios