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Grafana + Loki for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Logs, LogQL, Dashboards and TroubleshootingCloud Computing

Grafana + Loki for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Logs, LogQL, Dashboards and Troubleshooting

Learn how Grafana and Loki work together to centralize application logs, query them with LogQL, build dashboards, create alerts, and troubleshoot modern applications.

Xcademia Team
10m29
Grafana for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Monitoring, Dashboards, Metrics and AlertsCloud Computing

Grafana for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Monitoring, Dashboards, Metrics and Alerts

Grafana is one of the most popular tools for visualizing monitoring data. In this beginner-friendly guide, learn what Grafana is, how dashboards and data sources work, how Grafana connects with Prometheus, and how to create your first monitoring dashboard.

Xcademia Team
12m34
Prometheus Monitoring: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Metrics, PromQL, Alerting and Application MonitoringCloud Computing

Prometheus Monitoring: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Metrics, PromQL, Alerting and Application Monitoring

Prometheus is a powerful open-source monitoring tool for modern applications, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. Learn how Prometheus collects metrics, how PromQL works, metric types, exporters, Grafana, Alertmanager and how to build a practical monitoring setup.

Xcademia Team
14m39
Redis Explained: A Complete Beginner's GuideCloud Computing

Redis Explained: A Complete Beginner's Guide

Learn Redis from scratch with this complete beginner's guide. Understand Redis architecture, installation, data structures, commands, caching, Pub/Sub, persistence, transactions, and real-world use cases with practical examples to build fast, scalable, and high-performance applications.

Xcademia Team
13m163
Kubernetes Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Modern Container OrchestrationCloud Computing

Kubernetes Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Modern Container Orchestration

Learn Kubernetes from scratch with this beginner-friendly guide. Understand its architecture, Pods, Deployments, Services, scaling, and how to deploy your first application with practical examples and essential kubectl commands.

Xcademia Team
14m74
Docker Explained: A Complete Beginner's GuideCloud Computing

Docker Explained: A Complete Beginner's Guide

Master Docker with this complete beginner's guide. Learn how Docker containers, images, Dockerfiles, and Docker Compose work, explore essential commands, understand Docker architecture, and build your first containerized application with practical examples and best practices for modern development.

Xcademia Team
8m66