Introduction to Google Cloud's operations suite
We have already learned about a number of services, and now it is time to take a closer look at the monitoring options. Google comes with a GCP-integrated tool called Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly known as Stackdriver). Stackdriver was founded in 2012 as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that would allow consistent monitoring across different cloud layers. In 2014, it was acquired by Google and made publicly available in 2016 as a GCP service.
Currently, Google Cloud's operations suite can monitor both GCP and AWS. However, integration with the former is much more robust. Google Cloud's operations suite is a set of tools that provides the following services:
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Debugging
- Tracing
- Error Reporting
- Profiling
Monitoring and Logging are agentless, but in order to obtain more informative metrics and logs, an agent should be installed. There are actually...