Monitoring cloud services and analyzing logs
The primary components of a monitoring solution on GCP are Workspaces and the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging services. In this section, we will explore these services and also the monitoring and logging capabilities within Google Cloud.
The monitoring landscape in Google Cloud
Workspaces are where monitoring information is organized and can be created at no charge. The monitored resources can be in one or more Google Cloud projects and one or more AWS accounts. Every Workspace has a host project, which is the GCP project in which it is created. A Workspace can monitor up to 100 Google Cloud projects and AWS accounts, but it is the host project that has all the configurations related to dashboards, alerting policies, uptime checks, notification channels, and other group definitions that you configure.
In other words, the host project is where monitoring is centralized from a governance perspective. It is not uncommon for host...