Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud (LMOGC) – Contenuti

Contenuti dettagliati del Corso

Module 1 - Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite

• Describe the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite
• Explain the purpose of the Cloud Monitoring tool.
• Explain the purpose of Cloud Logging and Error Reporting tools.
• Explain the purpose of Application Performance Management tools.

Module 2 - Monitoring Critical Systems

• Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects.
• Explain the different types of dashboards and charts that can be built.
• Create an uptime check.
• Explain the cloud operations architecture.
• Explain and demonstrate the purpose of using Monitoring Query Language (MQL) for monitoring.

Module 3 - Alerting Policies

• Explain alerting strategies.
• Explain alerting policies.
• Explain error budget.
• Explain why server-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and service-level agreements (SLAs) are important.
• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each.
• Use Cloud Monitoring to manage services.

Module 4 - Advanced Logging and Analysis

• Use Log Explorer features.
• Explain the features and benefits of logs-based metrics.
• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters.
• Explain how BigQuery can be used to analyze logs.
• Export logs to BigQuery for analysis.
• Use log analytics on Google Cloud.

Module 5 - Working with Audit Logs

• Explain Cloud Audit Logs.
• List and explain different audit logs.
• Explain the features and functionalities of the different audit logs.
• List the best practices to implement audit logs.

Module 6 - Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Use the Ops Agent with Compute Engine.
• Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring.
• Explain the benefits of using Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.
• Explain the usage of PromQL to query Cloud Monitoring metrics.
• Explain the uses of Open Telemetry.
• Explain custom metrics.

Module 7 - Monitoring Google Cloud Network and Data Access

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and firewall rules logs
• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring
• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center

Module 8 - Investigating Application Performance Issues

• Explain the features and benefits of Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.
• Explain the functionalities of the Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler

Module 9 - Optimizing the Costs for Operations Suite

• Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud.
• Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within Google Cloud.