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Building a DORA Metrics Dashboard

Build a DORA metrics dashboard with Prometheus and Grafana to measure platform maturity - essential CNPA exam skills

45 minutes
platform-engineering/cnpa
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Lab Overview

This hands-on lab teaches you to implement a DORA metrics dashboard using Prometheus recording rules and Grafana visualizations, a critical topic for the CNPA certification.

You'll learn to:

  • Deploy custom metrics exporters for deployment frequency tracking
  • Create Prometheus recording rules for the four DORA metrics
  • Build Grafana dashboards with performance tier thresholds
  • Configure alerting rules when DORA metrics degrade
  • Analyze sample data to categorize platform maturity levels

Prerequisites

basic-kubernetes-knowledge

yaml-syntax

prometheus-basics

Technologies Covered

cnpa-certificationdora-metricsprometheusgrafanaplatform-engineeringobservabilitymetrics

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This lab is part of the CNPA Certification Prep course

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