Overview
SignalFx is a real-time, cloud-based platform for monitoring infrastructure, microservices, and applications. It allows users to collect, analyze and trace issues across every component in a cloud environment.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use SignalFX to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot their organization’s computational resources and applications.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Use SignalFX to collect data across many areas of their infrastructure, including applications, microservices, containers, and functions.
- Use SignalFX’s visualization tools to analyze collected data.
- Automate the response to different alerts to accelerate problem resolution.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Requirements
- An understanding of infrastructure concepts
Audience
- System administrators
- Developers
- Operations engineers
- Infrastructure architects and engineers
Course Outline
Introduction
- Directed troubleshooting vs teal-time troubleshooting
Overview of SignalFX Features and Architecture
Setting up a Signal FX Account
Navigating the SignalFX UI
Understanding Traces, Metrics, and Events
Monitoring Infrastructure
Using Metadata to Find, Filter, and Aggregate Metrics
Visualizing Infrastructure
How Analytic Functions Work
Creating Custom Metrics
Building a Dashboard
Building a Chart
Creating a Stable Alert
Creating Detectors
Collaborating with Team Members
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion