Cloud Monitoring

If you have ever worked as an on-premises system administrator, you have probably physically inspected or logged in to your server’s management console in response to various alerts that have fired in your monitoring console. For example, a fan or a disk failure, a power outage, or a network port flap can happen in any data center and can be easily detected thanks to monitoring systems.

Although moving to Google Cloud means you don’t have to monitor the underlying network and physical infrastructure anymore, you are still responsible for your applications in a similar way as you were responsible for them on-premises.

Google offers a highly efficient service called Cloud Monitoring, which is avaiable by default once you create your project. This service provides many tools for collecting, analyzing, and presenting real-time monitoring data for both Google Cloud services and user workloads. Most Google Cloud services are already connected to the monitoring...