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LABINTERMEDIATE
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

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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