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 1 | # DevOps Monitoring Challenge
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 4 | Congratulations on making it to the Monitoring Challenge! Companies today are working on building monitoring
 5 | solutions to have better insight on the health and performance of their computing systems. Your challenge
 6 | today is to set up a monitoring stack to capture data points from two live EC2 instances! ​ 
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 8 | **All tools and AWS services are** **FREE!** 
 9 | **Submission equals invitation to interview!** **Incomplete solutions are welcomed!**
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11 | **Submit a single PDF containing an image of your dashboard in action and notes on your process.** 
12 | We will ask for the live dashboard during the interview!
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14 | **The challenge is written with respects to AWS but GCP and AZURE solutions are welcomed!** 
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16 | #### Tips On Getting Started:
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18 | * Dive Deep into tools! Then build fast!
19 | * Find resources online.
20 | * Keep it in the cloud.
21 | * Automate simulations.
22 | 
23 | #### Monitoring Challenge + Starting Resources:
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25 | 1. Set up 3 t2.micro AWS EC2 instances
26 |     * What is AWS? [(link)](https://youtu.be/qcY-uiEHhn0)
27 |     * How to create an AWS account. [(link)](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/)
28 |     * Launching and ssh-ing into your first EC2 instance. [(link)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstarts/latest/vmlaunch/step-1-launch-instance.html) [(link)](https://youtu.be/BCM9aaaWvR0)
29 |          * Bash commands and scripting 101 [(link)](https://linuxconfig.org/bash-scripting-tutorial-for-beginners)
30 | 2. Configure Prometheus to monitor 2 EC2 instances.
31 |     * What is Prometheus? [(link)](https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/)
32 | 3. Connect Prometheus to Grafana.
33 |     * What is Grafana? [(link)](https://grafana.com/grafana/)
34 | 4. Collect and display cpu, memory, and disk space usage.
35 | 5. Simulate high cpu, memory, and disk usage on monitored instances.
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37 | #### Optional:
38 | *  Collect and display network traffic rate, upload rate, and download rate.
39 | *  Use [DockProm](https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom) instead of manual implementation of Prometheus + Grafana
40 | *  Launch DockProm into a kubernetes cluster [[1]](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#%3Ckubernetes_sd_config)[[2]](https://www.weave.works/blog/prometheus-and-kubernetes-monitoring-your-applications/)
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42 | #### Support:
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44 | * Please email ​monitoring-challenge@insightdevops.com​ if you need help!
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48 | ##### Please have Grafana easily visible and ready to run before the interview.
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