Course Details:
Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud

This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud.

Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

Skills Gained

• Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite.
• Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects.
• Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts.
• Install and manage Ops Agent to collect logs for Compute Engine.
• Explain Cloud Operations for GKE.
• Analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs.
• Analyze and export Cloud Audit Logs instances.
• Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application.
• Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud.

Who Can Benefit

This class is intended for the following participants:

• Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps personnel
• Cloud developers and DevOps personnel

Course Outline

• Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite
• Monitoring Critical Systems
• Alerting Policies
• Advanced Logging and Analysis
• Working with Audit Logs
• Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability
• Monitoring Google Cloud Network and Data Access
• Investigating Application Performance Issues
• Optimizing the Costs for Operations Suite