Google Cloud Monitoring and Observability

This module serves as an orientation to the course "Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud." It introduces students to the course structure, materials, and resources needed to successfully complete the training. The module helps students become familiar with the overall topics that will be covered and explains how to access course materials and provide feedback.

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This module provides a high-level overview of Google Cloud's logging, monitoring, and observability suite of products. It introduces students to the various tools and services available for monitoring cloud resources and applications, explaining their primary functions and how they integrate with each other to provide comprehensive observability.

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This module explores Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts and their application in preventing customer pain points. It covers fundamental SRE principles and practices that help maintain reliable cloud systems, focusing on how to identify, measure, and mitigate issues before they impact end users. The module frames customers as any consumers of cloud-based systems.

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This module focuses on creating effective alerting systems for cloud applications to enable timely responses to problems. It covers developing comprehensive alerting strategies, defining appropriate alerting policies, configuring notification channels, and identifying different types of alerts for various use cases. Students learn how to construct alerts for resource groups and manage alerting policies programmatically.

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This module explores best practices for monitoring project architectures in Google Cloud. It covers Cloud IAM roles needed for monitoring permissions, examines default dashboards and their appropriate use, and teaches how to create custom charts and dashboards to track resource consumption and application load. Students also learn to define uptime checks for monitoring liveliness and latency of critical services.

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This module focuses on setting up comprehensive observability for Google Cloud services. It covers integrating logging and monitoring agents into Compute Engine VMs and images, enabling and utilizing Kubernetes Monitoring, extending Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus, and exposing custom metrics through code with the help of OpenCensus. Students learn practical techniques for enhancing visibility into cloud resources.

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This module examines Google Cloud's advanced logging and analysis capabilities. It covers resource tagging approaches, creating and defining log sinks, generating monitoring metrics based on log entries, and linking application errors to Logging and other operation tools using Error Reporting. Students also learn how to export logs to BigQuery for long-term storage and perform SQL-based analysis.

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This module focuses on two key aspects of Google Cloud monitoring: network security monitoring and audit logging. Students learn to collect and analyze VPC Flow, Firewall Rule, and Cloud NAT logs, enable Packet Mirroring, and utilize the Network Intelligence Center. It also covers Cloud Audit logs for tracking user actions ("who did what and when") and best practices for implementing effective audit logging.

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This module teaches a systematic approach to handling incidents in Google Cloud environments. It acknowledges that despite solid planning, design, architecture, and preventive maintenance, issues will inevitably occur. The module focuses on developing structured processes for incident response that minimize user impact and improve perception of service quality, covering incident identification, classification, resolution, and post-incident reviews.

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This module explores Google Cloud's Application Performance Management products: Cloud Trace, Cloud Debugger, and Cloud Profiler. It demonstrates how these tools provide insights into code and service functionality when deploying applications to Google Cloud. Students learn practical techniques for troubleshooting performance issues, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing application performance using Google's specialized monitoring tools.

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This final module addresses cost optimization for Google Cloud's operations suite. It teaches students how to analyze resource utilization costs for operations-related components within Google Cloud and implement best practices for controlling operational expenses. The module helps students balance comprehensive monitoring needs with budget constraints, focusing on techniques to maximize monitoring value while minimizing unnecessary spending.

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This module provides comprehensive reference materials for the course, including PDF links to all modules. It serves as a centralized repository for course content that students can access throughout their learning journey and refer back to after course completion. The resources are designed to support self-paced learning and provide additional context for the topics covered in the course.

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