Configuring Google Cloud's operations suite

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For Stackdriver, there was a need to manually create a monitoring workspace. After Google Cloud's operations suite was introduced, there was no more need to do it. When you navigate to Cloud Monitoring from the Google Console, you will see the project has been enabled for monitoring automatically after it was created and has become a so-called scoping project.

Google Cloud's operations suite is enabled on a project-by-project basis. Best practice says that if you are going to use just one project, you should enable it for that project. If you have more than one project, you should have a separate project just for monitoring. This is called a scoping project. From that project, you will be able to indicate which other projects you would like to monitor. Those will become monitored projects. Remember, you are not charged for additional projects, so this will not entail any additional costs.

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