Summary
Even though you may get fewer observability-related questions compared to the other services on the ACE exam, the Monitoring and Logging services are essential areas in your hands-on experience with Google Cloud. Initially, observability helps you better understand how Google Cloud services work. Later, when you run your applications in production, it will help you to improve customer experience and reduce costs.
To get the most out of observability, start with out-of-the-box dashboards, add agents for Compute Engine VMs to collect additional metrics, and create logs-based metrics and alerts. Next, centralize monitoring into a dedicated project or logs by aggregating sinks. Finally, use Trace, Profiler, and Debugger to optimize your application.
