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…
Create and configure Azure App Service
Skill 3.4: Create and configure Azure App Service Azure App Service is a platform to develop an application in Azure without worrying about therequired back-end infrastructure. You do not have to create, configure, and maintain a VM to host your applications if you are using a web app created with App Service. Moreover, Azure provides…
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…
Connect to ACA – MS AZ-104 Exam Guide
Connect to ACA After deploying the ACA instance to your subscription, you will receive an Application URL for the container environment. The URL is on the Overview blade of the resource, as shown in Figure 3-58. Clicking the URL will display what the container is running. FIGURE 3-58 Azure Container App overview From the Azure…
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…
Create an ACA instance – MS AZ-104 Exam Guide
Create an ACA instanceYou can use any of the available tools to deploy an ACA instance, including the Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, ARM Templates, and Bicep files. To create an ACA instance using the Azure portal, follow these steps: FIGURE 3-50 Create Container App blade FIGURE 3-51 Create Container Apps Environment FIGURE 3-52 Workload profile…
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…