GCP Classroom notes 25/Sep/2024

Creating Dashboards

• Lets create a some of virtual machines
  • debian
  • ubuntu
  • redhat
• Lets create some storage buckets
• Lets create sql database

Dashboards

• Navigate to the Cloud Monitoring and Select Dashboards

Cloud Ops Custom Logging

• When we install cloud ops agent the default configuration Refer Here
• User specific configuration can be setup by modifying config.yaml Refer Here
• We can configure recieving logs from known applications/servers Refer Here
• Cloud logging is a service for collecting, storing, filtering and viewing logs and event data.
• Log Routers and Log Sinks
  • Log Data is ingested by cloud logging api, From there, log messages are route to one of the three types of sinks
    • Required Log Sink: used to store admin activity, system events, access transperency logs, These logs are storee for 400 days and this duration cannot be change
    • Default Log Sink: this recieves log message that are not sent to required log sink. Logs are stored for 30 days by default (configurable)
    • User-Defined Log sink
  • Log Router is a service that recieves log messages and applies inclusion or exclusion filters to determin which log sinks should recieve the log message,

Cloud Trace

• This is a distributed tracing system for collecting latency data for an application.

Synthetic monitoring

• involves creating tests or checks that simulate user interactions with applications or services
• These checks are run from various locations globall or within your cloud environment to measure
  • availability
  • response time
  • other performance metrics
• Features:
  • Uptime checks
  • Availability Monitoring
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Alerting
  • Dashboard Integration
  • Scripting and Customization