In this chapter, we learned about Stackdriver and how to monitor GCP services, resources, and applications. There are three main functionalities:
- Monitoring
- Logging
- APM
To enhance monitoring and logging capabilities, install agents on the instances. Monitoring allows predefined metrics to be monitored. Logging allows you to create log-based metrics. Alert policies can be created on conditions, and they can send notifications to endpoints of your choosing. Tracing facilitates an understanding of the latency of your application components, including microservices and load balancers. Debugging allows you to look at a snapshot of the code that is causing an error, without stopping the application. Profiler shows how many resources are used by different components of the application. Finally, Error Reporting aggregates error logs of the application, and displays them on timescale...
