Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions: • What are the characteristics of clouds and cloud services? • What is the purpose and the characteristics of virtualization? Key Terms This chapter uses the following key terms. You can find the definitions in the Glossary. Cloud computing Community…
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Viewing and filtering logs in Cloud Logging
We already had a sneak peek into Cloud Logging when we built log-based metrics in the Cloud Monitoring section. Now, it’s time to explain how to view logs with Logs Explorer. The upper section of Logs Explorer includes a Query pane with a time-range selector, an editor to build queries, a filter to narrow down…
Cloud Logging – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
Cloud Logging is a comprehensive solution for managing logs generated by your applications, the platform they run on, and the underlying infrastructure, whether it’s on Google Cloud, other cloud providers, or on-premises systems. This fully managed service allows you to easily store, search, analyze, monitor, and receive alerts on logging data and events from all…
Log-based metrics – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
With log-based metrics, you can configure metrics based on log entries from Cloud Logging (this service will be the subject of the next section) without any additional instrumentation. For example, if you want to monitor a specific behavior of your application and you know how this behavior is represented in logs, there is no need…
Creating and ingesting Cloud Monitoring custom metrics
In addition to monitoring native GCP services and operating systems of your VMs (via Ops Agent), Cloud Monitoring provides you with options to closely monitor your applications. If your application runs on a Compute Engine VM and is listed as a supported third-party application in the Google Cloud Monitoring documentation (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/ops-agent/third-party), you can leverage Ops…
Creating Cloud Monitoring alerts based on resource metrics
Monitoring dashboards alone, even the most sophisticated ones, wouldn’t be enough for system administrators as they would have to monitor them 24/7 looking for various anomalies. That is why Google Cloud Monitoring provides alerting capabilities for the following use cases:• User notifications – Used to notify admins when metrics exceed a certain threshold or when…
Monitoring, Logging, and Estimating Costs in GCP-2
You can also use built-in charts and out-of-the-box metrics to build customized views to have all the services that build your application in one dashboard. In the Dashboards overview, select + CREATE DASHBOARD, provide its name, and as a next step, drag and drop a metric you need and rearrange or resize it to fit…
Monitoring, Logging, and Estimating Costs in GCP-1
At first look, the observability services don’t appear to be the most critical topic. It is possible to run workloads without monitoring them. But soon, after you start deploying services at scale, you will look for a monitoring service to optimize or plan the usage of Google Cloud resources. You will want to investigate logs…
Interacting with data services using API calls
Google Cloud offers comprehensive documentation about the usage of its APIs. We recommend several valid URLs that you should visit if you want to dive deeper:• https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/overview: General overview of the cloud APIs concept• https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer: A tool that lets you try out Google API methods without having to write any code• https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/getting-started: A getting started…
Postman configuration – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
“Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API life cycle and streamlines collaboration so that you can create better APIs – faster”.This quote is from https://www.postman.com/product/what-is-postman/.Postman can be used on any modern operating system – Windows, Linux, or macOS. To download it, go to https://www.postman.com/downloads/postman-agent/. If…