The document discusses how to monitor microservices with Prometheus by designing effective metrics. It recommends focusing on key metrics like rate, errors, and duration based on the RED methodology. Prometheus is introduced as a time-series database that collects metrics via scraping. Effective metric naming practices and integrating Prometheus with applications using client libraries and exporters are also covered. A demo shows setting up Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager to monitor a sample Python application.