Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the suite of tools that are part of Cloud Operations. Cloud Operations is critical for forming the feedback loop of the CI/CD process and is fundamental to establishing observability on GCP. Observability is key to ensuring that an SRE's technical practices – specifically, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and Error Budgets – are not violated. This is achieved by gathering logs, metrics, and traces from multiple sources and by visualizing this information on dashboards. This information is used to establish performance and reliability indicators. These indicators can then be tracked with configurable alerts. These alerts trigger when there is a potential violation, and the alerts will be notified on the configurable notification channels. Cloud Operations also offers services that allow us to debug the application, without slowing down, and capture trace information. The end goal is to ensure that the service is reliable. We concluded this chapter...