• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud.

Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

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Audience profile
  • This class is intended for the following participants: - Cloud architects -Administrators -SysOps personnel Cloud developers -DevOps personnel
At course completion

You will be able to:

  • Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite.
  • Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects.
  • Create effective monitoring dashboards and alerts.Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts.
  • Explain how to collect logs using Cloud Logging and export for further analysis

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Course details

Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Course introduction
Module 2: Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite
  • Module Overview
  • Need for Google Cloud observability
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud Logging
  • Error reporting
  • Application Performance Management Tools
  • Module Summary
  • Quiz - Introduction to Monitoring in Google Cloud
Module 3: Monitoring Critical Systems
  • Module Overview
  • Monitoring Overview
  • Cloud Monitoring achitecture patterns
  • Monitoring multiple projects
  • Data model and dashboards
  • Query metrics
  • Uptime checks
  • LAB: Monitoring and Dashboarding Multiple Projects
  • Module summary
  • Quiz - Monitoring critical systems
Module 4: Alerting Policies
  • Module Overview
  • SLI, SLO, and SLA
  • Developing an alterting strategy
  • Creating alerts
  • LAB: Alerting in Google Cloud
  • Service Monitoring
  • LAB: Service Monitoring
  • Quiz - Alerting Policies
Module 5: Advanced Logging and Analysis
  • Module Overview
  • Cloud Logging overview and architecture
  • Log types and collection
  • Storing, routing and exporting the logs
  • Query and view logs
  • Using log-based metrics
  • Log analytics
  • LAB: Log Analytics on Google Cloud
  • Module Summary
  • Quiz - Advanced Logging and Analysis
Module 6: Working with Audit Logs
  • Module Overview
  • Cloud Audit Logs
  • Data Access audit logs
  • Audit logs entry format
  • Best practices
  • LAB: Cloud Audit Logs
  • Module Summary
  • Quiz - Working with Audit Logs
Module 7: Course Summary
  • Course Summary

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Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, participants should have: - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or equivalent experience - Basic scripting or coding familiarity - Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments

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