Target Audience

Perfect for cloud architects, administrators, SysOps personnel, developers, and DevOps professionals looking to master performance optimization on Google Cloud

COURSE AGENDA

Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite

  • Learn the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite.
  • Understand the functionality of tools like Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Error Reporting.
  • Explore Application Performance Management tools for diagnosing and optimizing performance.

Alerting Policies

  • Explore strategies for setting effective alerting policies.
  • Learn the importance of error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
  • Identify various types of alerts and their applications.
  • Use Cloud Monitoring to manage and monitor services effectively.

Advanced Logging & Analysis

  • Utilize Log Explorer features to analyze logs.
  • Understand the benefits of logs-based metrics and learn to define log sinks and filters.
  • Analyze logs using BigQuery by exporting logs for advanced analysis.

Working with Audit Logs

  • Learn about Cloud Audit Logs, their types, and features.
  • Understand the best practices for implementing audit logs to maintain compliance and track system activities.

Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

  • Use the Ops Agent with Compute Engine for enhanced monitoring.
  • Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring for observability in containerized environments.
  • Explore the benefits of Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus and how to use PromQL.
  • Learn about Open Telemetry and custom metrics for tailored monitoring solutions.

Monitoring Google Cloud Network & Data Access

  • Collect and analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs for network monitoring.
  • Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring for deeper insights into network traffic.
  • Discover the capabilities of the Network Intelligence Center for advanced network observability.

Investigating Application Performance Issues

  • Use tools like Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler to investigate performance issues.
  • Learn their features, benefits, and functionalities to optimize application performance.

Optimizing Costs for Operations Suite

  • Analyze resource utilization costs related to monitoring components in Google Cloud.
  • Implement best practices to control and optimize monitoring-related costs.

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