The course includes presentations and hands-on labs.

Module 1

Introduction to Google Cloud Monitoring Tools

• • Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud operations-focused components: Logging, Monitoring, Error Reporting, and Service Monitoring
• • Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud application performance management focused components: Debugger, Trace, and Profiler

Module 2

Avoiding Customer Pain

• • Construct a monitoring base on the four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
• • Measure customer pain with SLIs
• • Define critical performance measures
• • Create and use SLOs and SLAs
• • Achieve developer and operation harmony with error budgets

Module 3

Alerting Policies

• • Develop alerting strategies
• • Define alerting policies
• • Add notification channels
• • Identify types of alerts and common uses for each
• • Construct and alert on resource groups
• • Manage alerting policies programmatically

Module 4

Monitoring Critical Systems

• • Choose best practice monitoring project architectures
• • Differentiate Cloud IAM roles for monitoring
• • Use the default dashboards appropriately
• • Build custom dashboards to show resource consumption and application load
• • Define uptime checks to track aliveness and latency

Module 5

Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• • Integrate logging and monitoring agents into Compute Engine VMs and images
• • Enable and utilize Kubernetes Monitoring
• • Extend and clarify Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus
• • Expose custom metrics through code, and with the help of OpenCensus

Module 6

Advanced Logging and Analysis

• • Identify and choose among resource tagging approaches
• • Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters
• • Create metrics based on logs
• • Define custom metrics
• • Link application errors to Logging using Error Reporting
• • Export logs to BigQuery

Module 7

Monitoring Network Security and Audit Logs

• • Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs
• • Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring
• • Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center
• • Use Admin Activity audit logs to track changes to the configuration or metadata of resources
• • Use Data Access audit logs to track accesses or changes to user-provided resource data
• • Use System Event audit logs to track GCP administrative actions

Module 8

Managing Incidents

• • Define incident management roles and communication channels
• • Mitigate incident impact
• • Troubleshoot root causes
• • Resolve incidents
• • Document incidents in a post-mortem process

Module 9

Investigating Application Performance Issues

• • Debug production code to correct code defects
• • Trace latency through layers of service interaction to eliminate performance bottlenecks
• • Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application

Module 10

Optimizing the Costs of Monitoring

• • Analyze resource utilization cust for monitoring related components within Google Cloud
• • Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within Google Cloud