Learn how to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve your infrastructure and application
performance. Guided by the principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), this
course features a combination of lectures, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world
case studies. In this course, you'll gain experience with full-stack monitoring,
real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, and profiling
CPU and memory usage.
For each lab, Qwiklabs offers a free set of resources for a fixed amount of time and a clean environment with permissions.
Educational objectives
- Plan and implement a well-architected logging and monitoring architecture
- Measure and avoid customer pain with Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Visualize cloud health with dashboards
- Construct automated alerts
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve Google Cloud infrastructure
- Write, analyze, and export Google Cloud logs
- Find code defects, identify bottlenecks, and improve performance of production code
- Optimize monitoring costs
Prerequisites
- Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or equivalent experience
- Basic scripting or coding ability
- Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
Target audience
- Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps personnel
- Cloud developers and DevOps personnel
Pedagogy
50% theory, 50% practise