Chapter 17: Monitoring Your Infrastructure
In this chapter, we will look at GCP monitoring. We will discuss what Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly known as Stackdriver) is and why you need it. We will explain all of the services that it offers. We will also go through some basic configurations that will give you a good understanding of how you can leverage it in order to monitor your Google Cloud services, such as Google Compute Engine (GCE) or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introduction to Google Cloud's operations suite
- Configuring Google Cloud's operations suite
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging
- Application Performance Management (APM)
Exam Tips
Monitoring is a massive topic and can feel somewhat overwhelming. Once you understand the three main functionalities of Google Cloud's operations suite, which are monitoring, logging, and APM, we want you to focus on what you will be...
