Monitoring - bobbae/gcp GitHub Wiki

Cloud Operations Suite is new name for Stackdriver which includes Cloud Monitoring, Cloud logging, debugging, tracing, dashboarding, etc.

Cloud Monitoring collects measurements of your service and of the Google Cloud resources that you use.

Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), hosted uptime probes, and application instrumentation. You can use Cloud Monitoring tools to visualize and monitor these measurements.

SRE

https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/

Four Golden Signals

https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/#xref_monitoring_golden-signals

Stackdriver

Cloud Monitoring is part of Google Cloud operations suite.

Google Cloud Metrics

https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp

Logging

Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on logging data and events from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. You can collect logging data from over 150 common application components, on-premises systems, and hybrid cloud systems.

Node.js cloud logging library

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/get-more-insights-with-the-new-version-of-the-nodejs-library

Log alerting for Cloud SQL

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/cloud-sql-alerting

Types of metrics

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/operations/in-depth-explanation-of-operational-metrics-at-google-cloud

Error Reporting

Error Reporting aggregates and displays errors produced in your running cloud services. Using the centralized error management interface, you can find your application's top or new errors so that you can fix the root causes faster.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/application-exceptions-surfaced-automatically

snooze

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/snooze-your-alert-policies-cloud-monitoring

Cloud Monitoring Tutorials

https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/tutorials

Query metrics from Cloud Monitoring in Golang

https://medium.com/google-cloud/querying-metrics-from-google-cloud-monitoring-in-golang-2631ee3d33c1

Cloud Monitoring Dashboard Samples

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/operations/dashboards-cloud-monitoring-made-easier-samples

Prometheus & Grafana

Open source projects like Prometheus and Grafana are often used in Kubernetes along with metrics server.

Managed Prometheus

https://cloud.google.com/managed-prometheus

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/easy-managed-prometheus-metrics-service-for-kubernetes

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/databases-google-cloud-part-7-managed-service-prometheus-serverless-mongodb-atlas-and-finale/

ELK

ELK Stack provides similar features.

Other Monitoring tools

There are many other monitoring tools that are used in different contexts.

GCPing

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcping

Examples

Creating custom Google Chat notifications with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Run

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/operations/write-and-deploy-cloud-monitoring-alert-notifications-to-third-party-services

Set up alert on GCP

https://medium.com/@junxie2/setup-alert-at-gcp-on-services-bd10df26b692

Webhook, Pub/Sub, and Slack Alerting notification channels

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/operations/pub-sub-webook-and-slack-notifications-are-now-available

Deliver exception messages through Slack and Webhooks

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/use-slack-and-webhooks-for-notifications

GCP Monitoring Operations Suite Alerts into Google Chat using Pubsub and Cloud Function

https://medium.com/cts-technologies/gcp-operations-suite-alerts-into-google-chat-1a3c39f84187