Session 6 — Dashboards, APM and Alerting
Session Overview
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Instructor demo + hands-on lab
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Session Agenda
| Time | Topic | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 – 0:30 | Dashboard creation: structure, variables, panels | Demo |
| 0:30 – 1:00 | APM: distributed tracing, service maps | Demo + Hands-On |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Alerting: rules, notification channels, routing | Hands-On Lab |
Learning Objectives
- Build a service dashboard using the four golden signals
- Use Grafana variables for dynamic tenant and service filtering
- Interpret distributed traces in xTraces
- Create an alert rule with PromQL
- Configure a notification channel
- Test alert firing and resolution
Session Pages
- Dashboard Creation — panels, variables, golden signals
- APM — distributed traces, service maps, RED metrics
- Alerting — rules, channels, testing
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