Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
The Prometheus Certified Associate validates a foundational understanding of observability and Prometheus: monitoring concepts, the Prometheus architecture and data model, scraping and service discovery, writing PromQL for queries and recording rules, instrumentation and exporters, and alerting and visualization with Alertmanager and Grafana.
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Start PCA examSkills measured
Observability Concepts
18%Metrics, logs and traces, the RED and USE methods, SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, and push vs pull.
Prometheus Fundamentals
20%Architecture and components, the metric types (counter, gauge, histogram, summary), labels and cardinality, scraping, and service discovery and relabeling.
PromQL
28%Instant and range vectors, selectors and matchers, rate and increase, aggregation operators, functions, and recording rules.
Instrumentation and Exporters
16%Client libraries and best-practice naming, the Node Exporter, Blackbox Exporter, pushgateway, and exposition format.
Alerting and Dashboards
18%Alerting rules and 'for', Alertmanager routing, grouping, inhibition and silences, and Grafana dashboards.