We have already learned about a number of services, and now it is time to take a closer look at the monitoring options. Google comes with a GCP-integrated tool called Stackdriver. Stackdriver was founded in 2012 as an Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that would allow consistent monitoring across different cloud layers. In 2014, it was acquired by Google and made publicly available in 2016 as a GCP service.
Currently, Stackdriver can monitor both GCP and AWS. However, integration with the former is much more robust. Stackdriver is a suite of tools that provides the following services:
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Debugging
- Tracing
- Error reporting
- Profiling
Monitoring and logging are agentless, but, in order to obtain more informative metrics and logs, an agent should be installed. There are actually two types of agents that can be installed on your instances...
