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.

• 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.

• Have completed the Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course or have equivalent experience.
• Have basic scripting or coding familiarity.
• Be proficient with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.