Course
Digicomp Code GCEMCS
Essentials of Monitoring Critical Systems («GCEMCS»)
An overview of Google Cloud Monitoring: Learn to monitor across multiple projects, build insightful dashboards, and create uptime checks for resource availability.
Duration
0.5 days
Price
450.–
Course documents
Official Google Cloud courseware
Course facts
- Describing the purpose and key components of Google Cloud Monitoring
- Using Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects
- Explaining the different types of dashboards and charts that can be built in Cloud Monitoring
- Explaining the purpose of using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for monitoring
- Creating uptime checks to monitor resource availability
- Explaining how Google Cloud Gemini can be used to enhance application observability and assist with monitoring tasks
Explore querying with Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for advanced analysis and learn how to enhance observability using the AI-powered capabilities of Google Cloud Gemini.
1 Monitoring overview
- Introduction to Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Monitoring architecture patterns (platform monitoring, application monitoring for GKE and Compute Engine, hybrid monitoring)
- Describing the purpose and key components of Google Cloud Monitoring
2 Monitoring multiple projects
- Understanding metrics scopes
- Monitoring project configurations
- Using Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects
3 Data model and dashboards
- Cloud Monitoring data model (time series data, metrics, resources, etc.)
- Predefined and custom dashboards
- Dashboard builder
- Metrics Explorer
- Chart display options and configurations
- Explaining the different types of dashboards and charts that can be built in Cloud Monitoring
4 Query metrics
- Querying metrics using PromQL
- Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
- Explaining the purpose of using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for monitoring
- Demo: Ops Agent on Compute Engine instance
- Demo: Custom metrics using Managed Service for Prometheus with GKE
- Demo: Custom metrics using Managed Service for Prometheus with Cloud Run
5 Uptime checks
- Purpose and creation of uptime checks
- Uptime check configurations and options
- Relating uptime checks to alerting policies
- Creating uptime checks to monitor resource availability
6 Enhancing application observability with Google Cloud Gemini
- Using Gemini Cloud Assist chat from the Google Cloud console to
- periodically test your service's availability, performance, and consistency through simulated requests.
- Explaining how Google Cloud Gemini can be used to enhance application observability and assist with monitoring tasks
7 Essentials of Monitoring Critical Systems: Quiz
- Knowledge check on monitoring critical systems
- GCP fundamentals
- General Cloud and IT concepts
- Monitoring Tools familiarity
- App/Dev background
- DevOps and SRE principles