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Observability in Google Cloud

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Welcome to Observability in Google Cloud, the second part of a two-part course series. It is suggested that you complete part 1, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, prior to taking this course.

Exercise 1: Course Introduction

In this module, we will take some time to examine the art of configuring Google Cloud services for observability.

Exercise 1: Introduction Exercise 2: Introduction to Ops Agent Exercise 3: Non-VM resources Exercise 4: Cloud Operations for GKE

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Exercise 5: Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Exercise 6: Exposing user-defined metrics Exercise 7: Monitoring a Compute Engine by using Ops Agent Exercise 8: Summary Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 3

In this module, let’s spend some time analyzing Google’s Virtual Private Cloud.

Exercise 1: Introduction Exercise 2: VPC Flow Logs Exercise 3: Firewall Rules Logging Exercise 4: Load Balancer Logging Exercise 5: Cloud NAT Logs Exercise 6: Packet Mirroring Exercise 7: Network Intelligence Center Exercise 8: Analyzing Network Traffic with VPC Flow Logs Exercise 9: Summary Exercise 10: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 3

When deploying applications to Google Cloud, the Application Performance Management products (Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler) provide insight into how your code and services are functioning. The tools also help troubleshoot when needed.

Exercise 1: Introduction Exercise 2: Error Reporting Exercise 3: Cloud Trace Exercise 4: View Application Latency with Cloud Trace Exercise 5: Cloud Profiler Exercise 6: Summary Exercise 7: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 8: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 9: Quiz Question 3

In our final module we discuss optimizing the costs for Google Cloud Observability.

Exercise 1: Introduction Exercise 2: Costs and pricing Exercise 3: Bill estimation Exercise 4: Cost control best practices Exercise 5: Summary Exercise 6: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 7: Quiz Question 2

This brings us to the end of the “Observability in Google Cloud” course! Let's do a quick recap of what was covered.

Exercise 1: Course summary

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Exercise 1: Course Resources