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Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud

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Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

224 reviews

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud Observability.

  • Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects.

  • Create effective monitoring dashboards and alerts. Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts.

  • Explain how to collect logs using Cloud Logging and export for further analysis.

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There are 7 modules in this course

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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