Introduction to Google Cloud Monitoring Tools

• Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud operations-focused components: Logging, Monitoring, Error Reporting, and Incident Response and Management (IRM)
• Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud application performance management focused components: Debugger, Trace, Profiler, and Service Monitoring
  

Avoiding Customer Pain

• Construct a monitoring base from the four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
• Define critical system measures with Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
• Use Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to measure, and avoid, customer pain
• Achieve developer and operation harmony with SLO based error budgets
  

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
  

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 programmaticall
  

Advanced Logging and Analysis

• Identify and choose among resource tagging approaches
• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters
• Create metrics based on logs
• Export logs to BigQuery
  

Working with Audit Logs

• Use Admin Activity, Data Access, and System Event audit logs
• Track who, did what, and when
  

Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Integrate Logging and Monitoring agents into Compute Engine VMs and images
• Enable and utilize Kubernetes Monitoring
• Extend and clarify Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus
• Expose custom metrics through code, and with the help of OpenCensus
  

Monitoring the Google Cloud VPC

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow, Firewall Rules, and Cloud NAT logs
• Enable Packet Mirroring
• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center
  

Managing Incidents

• Handle incidents systematically
• Define incident management roles and communication channels
• Mitigate incident impact
• Troubleshoot root causes
• Resolve the incident
• Document incident in a postmortem process
  

Investigating Application Performance Issues

• Use Error Reporting to identify and understand your application errors.
• Debug production code to correct code defects
• Trace latency through layers of service interaction to eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application
  

Optimizing the Costs of Monitoring

• Analyze resource utilization cust for monitoring related components within Google Cloud
• Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within Google Cloud