PCA (Prometheus Certified Associate) #
PCA Goal #
Exam Objects #
📋 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) #
Mock Exams #
https://gist.github.com/luckylittle/68ea588d1242cff04765bbeddbed8fef
Prometheus Reference #
Prometheus Certified Associate: A Comprehensive Guide