Google Cloud's Operations Suite

5 hours Introductory universal_currency_alt 10 Credits

In this fundamental-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. The labs in this quest will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials Quest. Additional lab experience with the labs in the Baseline-Infrastructure Quest will also be useful. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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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

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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

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Quest Info

Prerequisites

This quest will teach you the basics and advanced features incrementally, but hands-on experience with Google Cloud's core computing and infrastructure services is required before taking labs in this series.

Available languages

English

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.

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