Introduction to Google Cloud Observability

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Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud

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Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud

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In this module, we will take some time to do a high-level overview of the various products which comprise Google Cloud’s logging, monitoring, and observability suite.

Exercise 1: Introduction to Google Cloud Observability

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Exercise 2: Monitoring Exercise 3: Need for Google Cloud observability Exercise 4: Google Cloud Observability Exercise 5: Cloud Monitoring Exercise 6: Cloud Logging Exercise 7: Error Reporting Exercise 8: Application Performance Management Tools Exercise 9: Module Summary Exercise 10: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 3 Exercise 13: Quiz Question 4

Monitoring is all about keeping track of exactly what's happening with the resources we've spun up inside of Google's Cloud. In this module, we'll take a look at options and best practices as they relate to monitoring project architectures. We'll differentiate the core IAM roles needed to decide who can do what as it relates to monitoring. Just like architecture, this is another crucial early step. We will examine some of the Google created default dashboards, and see how to use them appropriately. We will create charts and use them to build custom dashboards to show resource consumption and application load. And, finally, we will define uptime checks to track liveliness and latency.

Exercise 1: Monitoring Overview Exercise 2: Cloud Monitoring achitecture patterns Exercise 3: Monitoring multiple projects Exercise 4: Data model and dashboards Exercise 5: Query metrics Exercise 6: Uptime checks Exercise 7: Monitoring and Dashboarding Multiple Projects Exercise 8: Module summary Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 3

Alerting gives timely awareness to problems in your cloud applications so you can resolve the problems quickly. In this module, you will learn how to develop alerting strategies, define alerting policies, add notification channels, identify types of alerts and common uses for each, construct and alert on resource groups, and manage alerting policies programmatically.

Exercise 1: Module Overview Exercise 2: SLI, SLO, and SLA Exercise 3: Developing an alerting strategy Exercise 4: Creating alerts Exercise 5: Alerting in Google Cloud Exercise 6: Service Monitoring Exercise 7: Service Monitoring Exercise 8: Module summary Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 3

In this module, we will examine some of Google Cloud's advanced logging and analysis capabilities. Specifically, in this module you will learn to identify and choose among resource tagging approaches, define log sinks, create monitoring metrics based on log entries, link application errors to Logging and other operation tools using Error Reporting, and export logs to BigQuery for long term storage and SQL based analysis.

Exercise 1: Module Overview Exercise 2: Cloud Logging overview and architecture Exercise 3: Log types and collection Exercise 4: Storing, routing and exporting the logs Exercise 5: Query and view logs Exercise 6: Using log-based metrics Exercise 7: Log analytics Exercise 8: Log Analytics on Google Cloud Exercise 9: Module Summary Exercise 10: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 2

In this module, we will examine how to use Cloud Audit Logs. You will learn how to use Cloud Audit Logs to answer the question, “Who, did what, and when?” We will also cover best practices for Audit Logging.

Exercise 1: Module Overview Exercise 2: Cloud Audit Logs Exercise 3: Data Access audit logs Exercise 4: Audit logs entry format Exercise 5: Best practices Exercise 6: Cloud Audit Logs Exercise 7: Module Summary Exercise 8: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 9: Quiz Question 2

We will summarize the topics covered in this couse.

Exercise 1: Course 1 Summary

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Exercise 1: Module 1: Introduction to GC Operations Suite Exercise 2: Module 2: Monitoring Critical Systems Exercise 3: Module 3: Alerting Policies Exercise 4: Module 4: Advanced Logging and Analysis Exercise 5: Module 5: Working with Audit Logs