Diagnostics

Google Cloud Monitoring and Logging will help you to make data-driven decisions to shape your application. Knowing how many underlying resources it uses, its current health state, and what type of errors it generates is critical for service availability and future improvements.

But there is more to what the Google Cloud operations suite can offer. This section will describe the additional operations suite services that help with application diagnostics for further improvements and troubleshooting. This is essential, particularly for serverless applications. For this type of system, monitoring the underlying platform is challenging, and browsing through platform logs to understand a user’s experience can also be tricky. Tools such as Trace and Profiler can help immensely here.

Using cloud diagnostics to research an application issue

It is possible to diagnose an issue caused by a code in your application using Cloud Monitoring alone. Still, you will have...