Cloud Logging

5 hours Introductory universal_currency_alt 9 Credits

Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale. It can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs and, even better, analyze all that log data in real time. In this fundamental-level Quest, you learn how to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud. The labs in the Quest give you hands-on practice using Cloud Logging to maximize your learning experience and provide insight on how you can use Cloud Logging to your own Google Cloud environment.

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Lab

Fundamentals of Cloud Logging

In this hands-on lab, you learn how to use Cloud Logging to accumulate application logs in a single place, filter to reach the required log, understand how to create logs based metrics for advanced analysis, examine the audit logs use case, and export logs for compliance and/or advanced analysis needs.

Lab

Using BigQuery and Cloud Logging to Analyze BigQuery Usage

In this lab you view the BigQuery logs inside Cloud Logging, set up a sink to export them back into BigQuery, and then use SQL to analyze the logs.

Lab

Debugging Apps on Google Kubernetes Engine

This lab teaches you how logging works on GKE and some best practices for log collection by going through some common logging use cases.

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.

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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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Quest Info

Prerequisites

Students enrolling in this Quest will benefit from prior experience via the labs in the Google Cloud Essentials Quest or the Google Cloud's Operations Suite Quest.

Available languages

English

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