Summary

As we've seen, Stackdriver is a collection of very powerful tools for managing cloud services. Stackdriver Monitoring lays the groundwork for monitoring all of your cloud resources across several projects or even across public clouds. With over 900 metrics readily available, developers can shine a light on virtually any aspect of their cloud solutions. Adding to this, Stackdriver provides logging, error reporting, and custom metrics to monitor what's going on inside your applications.

Collecting the right information is incredibly important, but too much information often results in critical signals getting lost in the noise. What's more important is what you do with that information. With Stackdriver Alerting, teams can define custom alerting policies that leverage any combination of signals, empowering operators to step away from the monitoring dashboards and focus their efforts on adding value. Additionally, Stackdriver Alerting enables teams to measure an easily overlooked metric...