Monitoring with Stackdriver

Stackdriver is a service for collecting performance metrics, logs, and event data from our resources. Metrics include measurements such as the average percent CPU utilization over the past minute and the number of bytes written to a storage device in the last minute. Stackdriver includes many predefined metrics. Some examples are shown in Table 18.1 that you can use to assess the health of your resources and, if needed, trigger alerts to bring your attention to resources or services that are not meeting service-level objectives.

Table 18.1 Example Stackdriver metrics

GCP Product	Metric
Compute Engine	CPU utilization
Compute Engine	Disk bytes read
BigQuery	Execution times
Bigtable	CPU load
Cloud Functions	Execution count

Stackdriver works in hybrid environments with support for GCP, Amazon Web Services, and on-premise resources.

Creating Alerts Based on Resource Metrics

Metrics are defined measurements on a resource collected at regular intervals...