Monitoring and logging
We will look at monitoring in a lot more detail in Chapter 17, Monitoring Your Infrastructure, but it is wise to mention this again in terms of security. Cloud Operations is Google's service for monitoring and managing services, containers, applications, and infrastructure. Cloud Operations offers error reporting, debugging, alerts, tracing, and logging.
Logging assists in securing GCP and minimizing the downtime of your applications. Monitoring allows you to monitor application metrics that can flag an anomaly. Moreover, Cloud Operations Debugger inspects the state of your production data and compares your source code without any performance overhead. Logging allows real-time metrics logging and retains a set period, depending on the log type. If you have security requirements to keep logs for a longer period, then they can be exported to Cloud Storage, which offers inexpensive storage for extended periods.
