> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Course: Prep Course - Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Certification

> A hands-on course preparing learners for Prometheus Certified Associate covering observability fundamentals, Prometheus installation and usage, PromQL, instrumentation, alerting, Kubernetes monitoring, scaling, and certification labs.

Notes for the **Prep Course - Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Certification** course: 74 lessons across 12 sections.

## Introduction

* [Course Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Introduction/Course-Introduction/page.md)

## Observability Fundamentals

* [Intro to Observability](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Observability-Fundamentals/Intro-to-Observability/page.md)
* [SLOSLASLI](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Observability-Fundamentals/SLOSLASLI/page.md)

## Prometheus Fundamentals

* [Prometheus Use Case](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Use-Case/page.md)
* [Prometheus Basics](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Basics/page.md)
* [Prometheus Architecture](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Architecture/page.md)
* [Prometheus Installation](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Installation/page.md)
* [Prometheus Installation systemd](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Installation-systemd/page.md)
* [Prometheus Installation Demo](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Installation-Demo/page.md)
* [Node Exporter](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Node-Exporter/page.md)
* [Node Exporter systemd](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Node-Exporter-systemd/page.md)
* [Prometheus Configuration](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-Configuration/page.md)
* [AuthenticationEncryption](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/AuthenticationEncryption/page.md)
* [Metrics](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Metrics/page.md)
* [Exploring Expression Browser](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Exploring-Expression-Browser/page.md)
* [Prometheus in Docker Container](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Prometheus-in-Docker-Container/page.md)
* [Intro to PromTools](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Intro-to-PromTools/page.md)
* [Monitoring Containers](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Prometheus-Fundamentals/Monitoring-Containers/page.md)

## PromQL

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Introduction/page.md)
* [Selectors Matchers](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Selectors-Matchers/page.md)
* [Modifiers](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Modifiers/page.md)
* [PromQL Demo](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/PromQL-Demo/page.md)
* [Operators](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Operators/page.md)
* [Vector Matching](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Vector-Matching/page.md)
* [Aggregation](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Aggregation/page.md)
* [Functions](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Functions/page.md)
* [Subquery](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Subquery/page.md)
* [HistogramSummary](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/HistogramSummary/page.md)
* [Recording Rules](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/Recording-Rules/page.md)
* [HTTP API](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/PromQL/HTTP-API/page.md)

## Dashboarding & Visualization

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Dashboarding-Visualization/Introduction/page.md)
* [Expression Browser](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Dashboarding-Visualization/Expression-Browser/page.md)
* [Console Templates](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Dashboarding-Visualization/Console-Templates/page.md)

## Application Instrumentation

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Application-Instrumentation/Introduction/page.md)
* [Instrumentation basics](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Application-Instrumentation/Instrumentation-basics/page.md)
* [Labels](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Application-Instrumentation/Labels/page.md)
* [HistogramSummary](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Application-Instrumentation/HistogramSummary/page.md)
* [Gauge](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Application-Instrumentation/Gauge/page.md)
* [Best Practice](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Application-Instrumentation/Best-Practice/page.md)

## Service Discovery

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Service-Discovery/Introduction/page.md)
* [File](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Service-Discovery/File/page.md)
* [AWS](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Service-Discovery/AWS/page.md)
* [Re Labeling](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Service-Discovery/Re-Labeling/page.md)
* [Re Labeling Demo](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Service-Discovery/Re-Labeling-Demo/page.md)

## Push Gateway

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Push-Gateway/Introduction/page.md)
* [Installation](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Push-Gateway/Installation/page.md)
* [Pushing Metrics](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Push-Gateway/Pushing-Metrics/page.md)
* [Client Library](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Push-Gateway/Client-Library/page.md)

## Alerting

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Introduction/page.md)
* [Labels Annotations](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Labels-Annotations/page.md)
* [Alertmanager Architecture](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Alertmanager-Architecture/page.md)
* [Alertmanager Installation](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Alertmanager-Installation/page.md)
* [Alertmanager Installation Systemd](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Alertmanager-Installation-Systemd/page.md)
* [Configuration](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Configuration/page.md)
* [Receivers Notifiers](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Receivers-Notifiers/page.md)
* [Alertmanager Demo](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Alertmanager-Demo/page.md)
* [Silences](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Alerting/Silences/page.md)

## Monitoring Kubernetes

* [Introduction](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Introduction/page.md)
* [Installing Helm Chart](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Installing-Helm-Chart/page.md)
* [Prometheus Chart Overview](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Prometheus-Chart-Overview/page.md)
* [Connecting To Prometheus](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Connecting-To-Prometheus/page.md)
* [Prometheus Configuration](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Prometheus-Configuration/page.md)
* [Deploy Demo Application](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Deploy-Demo-Application/page.md)
* [Additional Scrape Configs](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Additional-Scrape-Configs/page.md)
* [Service Monitors](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Service-Monitors/page.md)
* [Adding Rules](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Adding-Rules/page.md)
* [Alertmanager Rules](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Monitoring-Kubernetes/Alertmanager-Rules/page.md)

## Conclusion

* [Conclusion](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Conclusion/Conclusion/page.md)
* [Registering for Exam](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Conclusion/Registering-for-Exam/page.md)

## Scaling & Long Term Storage

* [Long Term Storage](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Scaling-Long-Term-Storage/Long-Term-Storage/page.md)
* [Thanos](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Scaling-Long-Term-Storage/Thanos/page.md)
* [Scaling Prometheus](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Scaling-Long-Term-Storage/Scaling-Prometheus/page.md)
* [Horizontal Sharding](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Scaling-Long-Term-Storage/Horizontal-Sharding/page.md)
* [Federation](/docs/Prep-Course-Prometheus-Certified-Associate-PCA-Certification/Scaling-Long-Term-Storage/Federation/page.md)


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