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Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer Guide

You're reading from   Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer Guide Design, implement, manage, and secure a network architecture in Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072694
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maurizio Ipsale Maurizio Ipsale
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Mirko Gilioli Mirko Gilioli
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Network Infrastructure
2. Chapter 1: Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Designing, Planning, and Prototyping a GCP Network 4. Chapter 3: Implementing a GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 5. Section 2: Network Services and Security
6. Chapter 4: Configuring Network Services in GCP 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Hybrid Connectivity in GCP 8. Chapter 6: Implementing Network Security 9. Section 3: Network Operations, Management, and Monitoring
10. Chapter 7: Managing and Monitoring Network Operations 11. Chapter 8: Advanced Networking in Google Cloud Platform 12. Chapter 9: Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification Preparation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Logging and monitoring with GCP operations

In this section, you will learn how to enable and monitor logging on your VPC. First, we will explore how to log VPC flows. Then we will learn how to enable logging in firewall rules and monitor them. Lastly, we will enable VPC audit logs and monitor them. We will use Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring in the following exercises.

VPC Flow Logs

There are multiple use cases for VPC Flow Logs. For instance, when you need to determine where your application is being accessed, VPC Flow Logs can help to investigate. Moreover, when you need to build a Cloud Armor blacklist of unwanted IP addresses, VPC Flow Logs can provide such information.

Going into more detail, when you enable VPC Flow Logs on your VPC, you will be able to collect network traffic samples that are sent or received by Compute Engine instances or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) nodes. These logs are stored in Cloud Logging and can be used for network monitoring, network...

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