Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) — Requirements & Free Practice

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Pre-professional certification for foundational observability and monitoring knowledge using Prometheus.

Initial by examination

Examination outline

Observability Concepts (18%)
- Metrics
- Understand logs and events
- Tracing and Spans
- Push vs Pull
- Service Discovery
- Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs
Prometheus Fundamentals (20%)
- System Architecture
- Configuration and Scraping
- Understanding Prometheus Limitations
- Data Model and Labels
- Exposition Format
PromQL (28%)
- Selecting Data
- Rates and Derivatives
- Aggregating over time
- Aggregating over dimensions
- Binary operators
- Histograms
- Timestamp Metrics
Instrumentation and Exporters (16%)
- Client Libraries
- Instrumentation
- Exporters
- Structuring and naming metrics
Alerting & Dashboarding (18%)
- Dashboarding basics
- Configuring Alerting rules
- Understand and Use Alertmanager
- Alerting basics (when, what, and why)

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