Google Cloud Skills Boost

Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite

7 hours Introductory universal_currency_alt 15 Credits
Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite quest, where you learn about common tasks when starting with Google Cloud's operations suite, including how to monitor virtual machines in Compute Engine; use Cloud Monitoring to monitor multiple projects; extend monitoring and logging for Cloud Functions; create and send custom metrics for application data; create Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics; adjust resources based on monitoring metrics.


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  • Lab

    Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start

    This lab shows you how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring.

  • Lab

    Monitoring Multiple Projects with Cloud Monitoring

    In this hands-on lab we take a look through some of the information provided by the Cloud Monitoring tools, and teach some of the concepts you will need to know to take advantage of Cloud Monitoring effectively.

  • Lab

    Monitoring and Logging for Cloud Functions

    In this hands-on lab you learn about the information provided by the Cloud Monitoring tools to how take advantage of Cloud Monitoring effectively.

  • Lab

    Reporting Application Metrics into Cloud Monitoring

    In this lab you will run an application on Compute Engine instance and report the application’s metrics into Cloud Monitoring using the OpenCensus library.

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    Creating and Alerting on Logs-based Metrics

    In this hands-on lab learn how to create log-based metrics and view the alerts in Cloud Monitoring

  • Lab

    Autoscaling an Instance Group with Custom Cloud Monitoring Metrics

    This lab describes how to deploy an autoscaling Compute Engine instance group that is automatically scaled using a custom Cloud monitoring metric

  • Lab

    Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite: Challenge Lab

    This challenge lab tests your skills with Cloud Operations Monitoring and Logging.

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    Quest Info
    Available languages
    English, français, español (Latinoamérica), 日本語, and português (Brasil)
    What do I do when I finish this quest?
    After finishing this quest, you can explore additional content in your learning path or browse the learning catalog.
    What badges can I earn?
    Upon finishing a quest, you will earn a badge of completion. Some quests test your ability to apply your knowledge via a final assessment challenge lab. For these quests, you will receive a skill badge. Badges can be viewed on your profile and shared with your social network.