Fundamental 7 Steps 6 hours 39 Credits
In this quest you will learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. The labs in this quest will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials Quest. Additional lab experience with the labs in the Baseline - Infrastructure Quest will also be useful. Complete this quest, including the the challenge lab at the end, to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge. The challenge lab does not provide prescriptive steps, but requires solutions to be built with minimal guidance and will put your Google Cloud technology skills to the test!
Prerequisites:
This quest will teach you the basics and advanced features incrementally, but hands-on experience with Google Cloud's core computing and infrastructure services is required before taking labs in this series.Quest Outline
Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
This lab shows you how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring. Watch the short videos Monitor Health of All Your Cloud Apps with Google Cloud monitoring and Monitor a VM Instance with Cloud monitoring, GCP Essentials.
Monitoring Multiple Projects with Cloud Monitoring
In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Cloud Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Cloud Monitoring effectively.
Monitoring and Logging for Cloud Functions
In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Cloud Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Cloud Monitoring effectively.
Reporting Application Metrics into Cloud Monitoring
In this lab you will run an application on Compute Engine instance and report the application’s metrics into Cloud Monitoring using the OpenCensus library.
Creating and Alerting on Logs-based Metrics
In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Cloud Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Cloud Monitoring effectively.
Autoscaling an Instance Group with Custom Cloud Monitoring Metrics
This lab describes how to deploy an autoscaling Compute Engine instance group that is automatically scaled using a custom Cloud monitoring metric
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite: Challenge Lab
This challenge lab tests your skills with Cloud Operations Monitoring and Logging.
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