Logging Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud

Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite.

• Describe the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite.

• Explain the purpose of the Cloud Monitoring tool.

• Explain the purpose of Cloud Logging and Error Reporting tools.

• Explain the purpose of Application Performance Management tools.

Monitoring Critical Systems.

• Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects.

• Explain the di?erent types of dashboards and chars that can be built.

• Create an uptime check.

• Explain the cloud operations architecture.

• Explain and demonstrate the purpose of using Monitoring Query Language (MQL) for monitoring.

Alerting Policies.

• Explain alerting strategies.

• Explain alerting policies.

• Explain error budget.

• Explain why server-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and service-level agreements (SLAs) are important.

• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each.

• Use Cloud Monitoring to manage services.

Advanced Logging and Analysis.

• Use Log Explorer features.

• Explain the features and benefits of logs-based metrics.

• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters.

• Explain how BigQuery can be used to analyze logs.

• Export logs to BigQuery for analysis.

• Use log analytics on Google Cloud.

Working with Audit Logs.

• Explain Cloud Audit Logs.

• List and explain di?erent audit logs.

• Explain the features and functionalities of the di?erent audit logs.

• List the best practices to implement audit logs.

Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability.

• Use the Ops Agent with Compute Engine.

• Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring.

• Explain the benefits of using Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.

• Explain the usage of PromQL to query Cloud Monitoring metrics.

• Explain the uses of Open Telemetry.

• Explain custom metrics.

Monitoring Google Cloud Network and Data Access.

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs.

• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring.

• Explain the capabilities of the Network Intelligence Center.

Investigating Application Performance Issues.

• Explain the features and benefits of Error Reporting, Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler.

• Explain the functionalities of the Error Reporting, Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler.

Optimizing the Costs for Operations Suite.

• Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud.

• Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within Google Cloud.

• Cloud Architects, Administrators and SysOps personnel.

• Cloud Developers and DevOps personnel.

Prerequisites:

To get the most of out of this course, participants should have:

• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or equivalent experience.

• Basic scripting or coding familiarity.

• Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.