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Take the Prometheus UI for a spin

Take the Prometheus UI for a spin - Spring Boot Tutorial

From the course: Advanced Spring: Spring Boot Actuator

Take the Prometheus UI for a spin

- [Instructor] Now that we have installed Prometheus and are running it in the background successfully and we also have access to a dashboard, let's take the Prometheus dashboard for spin. To get started, I want to check the status of my servers. So the first thing I'm going to do is go back to the menu and I'm going to select the dropdown, and I'm going to scroll down to targets. And as you can see, I have both my Prometheus server up and running, and my end point for my Springwood application as well. So, I'm fetching my metrics successfully, so this is great. Now, let's go back to the Prometheus homepage. So I'm going to click parameters here, click the Prometheus name, and I'm back to the dashboard. The first thing I'm going to do is I want to just do a quick search. So here, you can type in queries. Prometheus has a query language called PromQL, but we also have access to a bunch of metrics by default. And how we can…

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