Fundamental 9 Steps 8 hours 42 Credits
In this fundamental-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of Stackdriver: an important GCP service for generating insights into applications’ health. Stackdriver provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. The labs in this quest will give you hands-on practice with Stackdriver, and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data.
Prerequisites:
This quest will teach you Stackdriver basics and advanced features incrementally, but hands-on experience with GCP’s core computing and infrastructure services is required before taking labs in this series. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the GCP Essentials Quest. Additional lab experience with the labs in the Baseline: Infrastructure Quest will also be useful.Quest Outline
Stackdriver: Qwik Start
This lab shows you how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Stackdriver. Watch the short videos Monitor Health of All Your Cloud Apps with Google Stackdriver and Monitor a VM Instance with Stackdriver, GCP Essentials.
Monitoring Multiple Cloud Projects with Stackdriver
In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Stackdriver Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Stackdriver Monitoring effectively.
Monitoring and Logging for Cloud Functions
In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Stackdriver Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Stackdriver Monitoring effectively.
Reporting Application Metrics into Stackdriver
In this lab you will run an application on Compute Engine instance and report the application’s metrics into Stackdriver using the OpenCensus library.
Stackdriver Profiler: Qwik Start
In this lab you'll learn how to use Stackdriver Profiler on GCP by downloading a sample Go program then exploring the captured data in the Profiler console.
Site Reliability Troubleshooting with Stackdriver APM
The objective of this lab is to familiarize yourself with the specific capabilities of Stackdriver to monitor GKE cluster infrastructure, Istio, and applications deployed on this infrastructure.
Creating and Alerting on Logs-based Metrics
In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Stackdriver Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Stackdriver Monitoring effectively.
Autoscaling an Instance Group with Stackdriver Custom Metrics
This lab describes how to deploy an autoscaling Compute Engine instance group that is automatically scaled using a custom Stackdriver metric
Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring
In this lab you'll try out some of the unique features that enable you to monitor and troubleshoot your Kubernetes applications with Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, which integrates metrics, logs, events, and metadata.
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