Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud

Content

Module 01 Introduction to Google Cloud Monitoring Tools

• Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud operations-focused components: Logging, Monitoring, Error Reporting, and Service Monitoring

• Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud application performance management focused components: Debugger, Trace, and Profiler

Module 02 Avoiding Customer Pain • Construct a monitoring base on the four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation

• Measure customer pain with SLIs

• Define critical performance measures

• Create and use SLOs and SLAs

• Achieve developer and operation harmony with error budgets.

Module 03 Alerting Policies

• Develop alerting strategies

• Define alerting policies

• Add notification channels

• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each

• Construct and alert on resource groups

• Manage alerting policies programmatically

Module 04 Monitoring Critical Systems

• Choose best practice monitoring project architectures

• Differentiate Cloud IAM roles for monitoring

• Use the default dashboards appropriately

• Build custom dashboards to show resource consumption and application load

• Define uptime checks to track aliveness and latency

Module 05 Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Integrate logging and monitoring agents into Compute Engine VMs and images

• Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring

• Extend and clarify Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus

• Expose custom metrics through code and with the help of OpenCensus

Module 06 Advanced Logging and Analysis

• Identify and choose among resource tagging approaches

• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters

• Create metrics based on logs

• Define custom metrics

• Use Error Reporting to link application errors to Logging

• Export logs to BigQuery

Module 07 Monitoring Network Security and Audit Logs

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs.

• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring.

• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center.

• Use Admin Activity audit logs to track changes to the configuration or metadata of resources.

• Use Data Access audit logs to track accesses or changes to user-provided resource data.

• Use System Event audit logs to track GCP administrative actions.

Module 08 Managing Incidents

• Define incident management roles and communication channels

• Mitigate incident impact

• Troubleshoot root causes

• Resolve incidents

• Document incidents in a post-mortem process.

Module 09 Monitoring Network Security and Audit Logs

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs.

• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring.

• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center.

• Use Admin Activity audit logs to track changes to the configuration or metadata of resources.

• Use Data Access audit logs to track accesses or changes to user-provided resource data.

• Use System Event audit logs to track GCP administrative actions.

Module 10 Optimizing Stackdriver Costs

• Understand Stackdriver billing

• Analyze Stackdriver resource utilization

• Implement best practices for Stackdriver cost control.