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Introduction to AIOps with Open Source Tools

  • Overview of AIOps concepts and associated benefits.
  • The role of Prometheus and Grafana within the observability stack.
  • The place of ML in AIOps: distinguishing between predictive and reactive analytics.

Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana

  • Installing and configuring Prometheus for time series data collection.
  • Building dashboards in Grafana utilizing real-time metrics.
  • Exploring exporters, relabeling, and service discovery mechanisms.

Data Preprocessing for ML

  • Extracting and transforming Prometheus metrics.
  • Preparing datasets suitable for anomaly detection and forecasting.
  • Utilizing Grafana’s transformation features or Python pipelines.

Applying Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection

  • Basic ML models for outlier detection (e.g., Isolation Forest, One-Class SVM).
  • Training and evaluating models on time series data.
  • Visualizing detected anomalies within Grafana dashboards.

Forecasting Metrics with ML

  • Building simple forecasting models (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM introduction).
  • Predicting system load or resource usage patterns.
  • Leveraging predictions for proactive alerting and scaling decisions.

Integrating ML with Alerting and Automation

  • Defining alert rules based on ML outputs or static thresholds.
  • Utilizing Alertmanager and notification routing.
  • Triggering scripts or automation workflows upon anomaly detection.

Scaling and Operationalizing AIOps

  • Integrating external observability tools (e.g., ELK stack, Moogsoft, Dynatrace).
  • Operationalizing ML models within observability pipelines.
  • Best practices for implementing AIOps at scale.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid understanding of system monitoring and observability concepts.
  • Practical experience using Grafana or Prometheus.
  • Familiarity with Python programming and fundamental machine learning principles.

Target Audience

  • Observability engineers.
  • Infrastructure and DevOps teams.
  • Monitoring platform architects and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).
 14 Hours

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