Chapter 7: Foundational Monitoring and Logging
In this chapter, I am going to try really, really hard not to get up on my soapbox.
Really, hard…
But seriously! How can you use Google Cloud and not know how logging and monitoring work? I mean, how can you find what’s broken, know when you might be running short on capacity, or tell when something untoward has occurred if you don’t have good data? And where do you get said data? Yes, Google Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.
Look, I’m old enough and comfortable enough in my own skin to know the things I’m good at and the things I’m not. Don’t ask me to draw you a picture or how to spell fungible, because drawing and spelling are definatly definitely (thank you, spell checker!) not in my skillset. But I got my first computer and started writing code in 1981, and it took me about 2 weeks to figure out that me and computers are simpático.
Figuring out what’s wrong...
