Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)

Curriculum-based resources for the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam.

According to The Linux Foundation:

The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam demonstrates an engineers foundational knowledge of observability and skills using Prometheus, the open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Domains & Competencies

The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam curriculum can be found here.

📋 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)