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Welcome to our comprehensive training on the VictoriaMetrics family and Grafana. This course is designed for DevOps engineers, SREs, cloud engineers, and developers who want to implement a modern, scalable, and cost-effective observability solution.

VictoriaMetrics is a high-performance, Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution optimized for large data volumes, high cardinality metrics, and long-term storage. VictoriaLogs complements the ecosystem as a fast and efficient log management solution for cloud-native logging. Together with Grafana, they form a powerful observability stack for complete metrics and log analysis.

Throughout the training, you will master the following topics:

– Introduction and Setup:
... - VictoriaMetrics vs. Prometheus: advantages and differences
... - Quick installation and basic configuration
... - Migration from existing Prometheus setups
... - VictoriaLogs basic setup and integration
... - vmagent as Prometheus replacement and scraper
... - Comparison with Thanos, Cortex/Mimir, and Loki

– PromQL and MetricsQL Mastery:
... - PromQL compatibility and differences
... - MetricsQL extensions and advanced functions
... - Complex queries for business metrics
... - Query performance optimization and best practices
... - Practical exercises with real datasets

– Grafana Dashboard Development:
... - Configuring VictoriaMetrics as Grafana data source
... - Dashboard design principles for observability
... - Advanced visualizations and panel types
... - Template variables and dynamic dashboards
... - Alerting integration in dashboards
... - Dashboard versioning and sharing

– VictoriaLogs Querying and Log Analysis:
... - VictoriaLogs integration in Grafana
... - Understanding LogQL-like query language
... - Log parsing and structured search
... - Correlation between metrics and logs
... - Creating log-based metrics
... - Troubleshooting with log analysis

– Operations, Security, and Scaling:
... - Single-node vs. cluster deployment
... - Retention strategies, sharding, and backups
... - vmauth for authentication and multi-tenancy
... - Security with TLS, tokens, and access control
... - Self-monitoring and performance metrics
... - vmalert and integration with Alertmanager
... - Observability in Kubernetes and cloud environments

– Practical Application and Use Cases:
... - Implementing SRE dashboard patterns
... - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
... - Infrastructure monitoring dashboards
... - Business metrics and KPI tracking
... - Multi-tenant monitoring scenarios
... - Real-time alerting and incident response
... - Migration of an existing Prometheus setup as hands-on exercise
... - End-to-end exercise: KPI dashboard with metric and log correlation

This course combines theoretical knowledge with intensive practical application and prepares you to successfully deploy VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs in production environments.

Disclaimer: The actual course content may vary from the above, depending on the trainer, implementation, duration and constellation of participants.

Whether we call it training, course, workshop or seminar, we want to pick up participants at their point and equip them with the necessary practical knowledge so that they can apply the technology directly after the training and deepen it independently.