Essentials of Monitoring Critical Systems
Overview
This course provides an overview of Google Cloud Monitoring. Participants will learn to monitor across multiple projects, build insightful dashboards, and create uptime checks for resource availability. They will explore querying with Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for advanced analysis and learn how to enhance observability using AI-powered capabilities of Google Cloud Gemini.
What You'll Learn
- Describe the purpose and key components of Google Cloud Monitoring
- Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects
- Explain the different types of dashboards and charts that can be built in Cloud Monitoring
- Explain the purpose of using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for monitoring
- Create uptime checks to monitor resource availability
- Explain how Google Cloud Gemini can be used to enhance application observability and assist with monitoring tasks
Who Should Attend
Cloud Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, System Administrators, anyone responsible for monitoring Google Cloud environments
Prerequisites
GCP fundamentals, General Cloud and IT concepts. Helpful to be familiar with: Monitoring Tools familiarity, App/Dev background, DevOps and SRE principles
Products Covered
Course Modules
Monitoring overview
Topics
- Introduction to Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Monitoring architecture patterns (platform monitoring, application monitoring for GKE and Compute Engine, hybrid monitoring)
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the purpose and key components of Google Cloud Monitoring
Monitoring multiple projects
Topics
- Understanding metrics scopes
- Monitoring project configurations
Learning Outcomes
- Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects
Data model and dashboards
Topics
- Cloud Monitoring data model (time series data, metrics, resources, etc.)
- Predefined and custom dashboards
- Dashboard builder
- Metrics Explorer
- Chart display options and configurations
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the different types of dashboards and charts that can be built in Cloud Monitoring
Query metrics
Topics
- Querying metrics using PromQL
- Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the purpose of using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for monitoring
Activities
Uptime checks
Topics
- Purpose and creation of uptime checks
- Uptime check configurations and options
- Relating uptime checks to alerting policies
Learning Outcomes
- Create uptime checks to monitor resource availability
Enhancing application observability with Google Cloud Gemini
Topics
- Using Gemini Cloud Assist chat from the Google Cloud console to periodically test your service availability, performance, and consistency through simulated requests
Learning Outcomes
- Explain how Google Cloud Gemini can be used to enhance application observability and assist with monitoring tasks
Essentials of Monitoring Critical Systems: Quiz
Topics
- Knowledge check on monitoring critical systems
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Course Details
- Course Code
- CS-ESOFMOSYS
- Duration
- 1 day
- Format
- ILT
- Level
- Intermediate
- Modules
- 7
- Activities
- 3
- Price
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