Logging Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud

This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud.

Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

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Duration 2 days
Level beginner
Format On-demand and ILT

What you'll learn

  • Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite.
  • Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects.
  • Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts.
  • Install and manage Ops Agent to collect logs for Compute Engine.
  • Explain Cloud Operations for GKE.
  • Analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs.
  • Analyze and export Cloud Audit Logs instances.
  • Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application.
  • Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud.

About this course

Overview

9 modules · 7 labs

Who this course is for
  • Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps personnel
  • Cloud developers and DevOps personnel
Prerequisite

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

  • Have completed the Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course or have equivalent experience.
  • Have basic scripting or coding familiarity.
  • Be proficient with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.
Products
  • Cloud Logging
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Error Reporting
  • Cloud Trace
  • Cloud Profiler
  • Google Compute Engine Monitoring
  • Google Kubernetes Engine Monitoring
  • VPC Flow logs
  • Firewall Rules logs
  • Data Access Audit logs
Not Covered

This training does not cover:

  • SRE concepts
  • SRE best practices
  • Incident response
Module 1
Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite
Objectives
  • 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.
Activities

1 quiz

Module 2
Monitoring Critical Systems
Objectives
  • Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects.
  • Explain the different types of dashboards and charts 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.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 lab
Module 3
Alerting Policies
Objectives
  • 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.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 labs
Module 4
Advanced Logging and Analysis
Objectives
  • 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.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 labs
Module 5
Working with Audit Logs
Objectives
  • Explain Cloud Audit Logs.
  • List and explain different audit logs.
  • Explain the features and functionalities of the different audit logs.
  • List the best practices to implement audit logs.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 labs
Module 6
Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability
Objectives
  • 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.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 labs
Module 7
Monitoring Google Cloud Network and Data Access
Objectives
  • Collect and analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs.
  • Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring.
  • Explain the capabilities of the Network Intelligence Center.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 labs
Module 8
Investigating Application Performance Issues
Objectives
  • 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.
Activities
  • 1 quiz
  • 1 labs
Module 9
Optimizing the Costs for Operations Suite
Objectives
  • Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within
    Google Cloud.
  • Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within
    Google Cloud.
Activities
  • 1 quiz

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