Introduction to Google Cloud Operations Suite

• Describe the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite
• Explain the purpose of the Cloud Monitoring tool.
• Explain the purpose of Cloud Logging and Error Reporting tools.
• Explain the purpose of Application Performance Management tools.

Monitoring Critical Systems

• Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects.
• Explain the different types of dashboards and charts that can be built.
• Create an uptime check.
• Explain the cloud operations architecture.
• Explain and demonstrate the purpose of using Monitoring Query Language (MQL) for monitoring.

Alerting Policies

• Explain alerting strategies.
• Explain alerting policies.
• Explain error budget.
• Explain why server-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and service-level agreements (SLAs) are important.
• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each. • Use Cloud Monitoring to manage services.

Advanced Logging and Analysis

• Use Log Explorer features.
• Explain the features and benefits of logs-based metrics. • Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters.
• Explain how BigQuery can be used to analyze logs.
• Export logs to BigQuery for analysis.
• Use log analytics on Google Cloud.

Working with Audit Logs

• Explain Cloud Audit Logs.
• List and explain different audit logs.
• Explain the features and functionalities of the different audit logs.
• List the best practices to implement audit logs.

Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Use the Ops Agent with Compute Engine.
• Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring.
• Explain the benefits of using Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.
• Explain the usage of PromQL to query Cloud Monitoring metrics.
• Explain the uses of Open Telemetry.
• Explain custom metrics.