Detailed Course Outline
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