2 day course

Partner of the Year

Private

A private training session for your team. Groups can be of any size, at a location of your choice including our training centres.

Certificate of Attendance

As a Google Cloud Partner, Jellyfish provides world-leading Cloud-based Training solutions to help clients succeed. This course covers everything you need to know about monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance.

Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, you’ll gain experience across all the techniques required to support a live Google Cloud environment.

We’ll start by looking at the Google Cloud Operations suite and look at setting up monitoring and alerting policies. You’ll then look at installing and managing the Ops Agent to collect Compute Engine logs and then delve further into GKE Operations. After this, we’ll move into supporting and monitoring the networking capabilities of Google Cloud including VPC and firewall logs. Finally, you will look at supporting and managing application performance.

Our Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud course is available as a private training session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom or at a location of your choice in the US.

Course overview

Who should attend:

This course is suitable for cloud architects, administrators and SysOps personnel, as well as cloud developers and DevOps personnel.

What you'll learn:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite
Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects
Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts
Install and manage Ops Agent to collect logs for Compute Engine
Explain Cloud operations for GKE
Analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs
Analyze and export Cloud Audit Logs instances
Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application
Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, you should have completed the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course or have equivalent experience. You should also be familiar with basic scripting or coding, and be proficient with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.

Course agenda

Module 1: 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

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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

Module 4: Advanced Logging & 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Module 7: Monitoring Google Cloud Network & Data Access

Collect and analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs
Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring
Explain the capabilities of the Network Intelligence Center

Module 8: Investigating Application Performance Issues

Explain the features and benefits of Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler
Explain the functionalities of the Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler

Module 9: Optimizing the Costs for Operations Suite

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