Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud Training Course | CourseMonster

This course teaches participants the following skills:

• Plan and implement a well-architected logging and monitoring infrastructure
• Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Create effective monitoring dashboards and alerts
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve Google Cloud infrastructure
• Analyze and export Google Cloud audit logs
• Find production code defects, identify bottlenecks, and improve performance
• Optimize monitoring costs

Useful links: Google Cloud training | Cyber Security training at CourseMonster | CourseMonster course page

Additional workplace outcomes: Participants can explain where Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud Training Course | CourseMonster fits in a wider Google Cloud skills roadmap, identify related certifications or follow-on courses, and apply the concepts to real project, operations or service delivery scenarios.

To get the most out of this course, participants should have:

• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or equivalent experience
• Basic scripting or coding familiarity
• Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments

Module 1
Introduction to Google Cloud Monitoring Tools

• Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud operations-focused components: Logging, Monitoring, Error Reporting, and Service Monitoring
• Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud application performance management focused components: Debugger, Trace, and Profiler

Module 2
Avoiding Customer Pain

• Construct a monitoring base on the four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
• Measure customer pain with SLIs
• Define critical performance measures
• Create and use SLOs and SLAs
• Achieve developer and operation harmony with error budgets

Module 3
Alerting Policies

• Develop alerting strategies
• Define alerting policies
• Add notification channels
• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each
• Construct and alert on resource groups
• Manage alerting policies programmatically

Module 4
Monitoring Critical Systems

• Choose best practice monitoring project architectures
• Differentiate Cloud IAM roles for monitoring
• Use the default dashboards appropriately
• Build custom dashboards to show resource consumption and application load
• Define uptime checks to track aliveness and latency

Module 5
Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Integrate logging and monitoring agents into Compute Engine VMs and images
• Enable and utilize Kubernetes Monitoring
• Extend and clarify Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus
• Expose custom metrics through code, and with the help of OpenCensus

Module 6
Advanced Logging and Analysis

• Identify and choose among resource tagging approaches
• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters
• Create metrics based on logs
• Define custom metrics
• Link application errors to Logging using Error Reporting
• Export logs to BigQuery

Module 7
Monitoring Network Security and Audit Logs

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs
• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring
• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center
• Use Admin Activity audit logs to track changes to the configuration or metadata of resources
• Use Data Access audit logs to track accesses or changes to user-provided resource data
• Use System Event audit logs to track GCP administrative actions

Module 8
Managing Incidents

• Define incident management roles and communication channels
• Mitigate incident impact
• Troubleshoot root causes
• Resolve incidents
• Document incidents in a post-mortem process

Module 9
Investigating Application Performance Issues

• Debug production code to correct code defects
• Trace latency through layers of service interaction to eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application

Module 10
Optimizing the Costs of Monitoring

• Analyze resource utilization cust for monitoring related components within Google Cloud
• Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within Google Cloud

Useful links: Google Cloud training | Cyber Security training at CourseMonster | CourseMonster course page

Suggested learning path: After this course, compare related options via the links in the overview and the Google Cloud training category.

Exam and certification details

This course may support a vendor exam, digital badge or professional certification depending on the selected delivery option. Delegates should confirm exam inclusion, voucher availability, prerequisites, pass mark and version before booking.

Official vendor training information: Google Cloud training.