Monitoring Query Language (MQL)

• MQL provides an expressive, text-based interface to Cloud Monitoring time-seris data.

• Create a vm & Once the vm is created

  • Select Metrics => Metrics Explorer

• for mql language reference Refer Here

• for mql examples Refer Here

Using Custom Metrics

• In GCP Custom metrics can be created in two ways
  • Custom Metrics with OpenCensus Refer Here
  • Creating Custom metrics using Cloud Monitoring Api Refer Here

Cloud Logging

• This allows us to store, search, analyze and alert on logging data event from Google cloud
• Refer Here for the code samples to write the logs using various programming languages