Summary
Cloud engineers are responsible for monitoring the health and performance of applications and cloud services. GCP provides multiple tools, including monitoring, logging, debugging, and tracing services.
Stackdriver Monitoring allows you to define alerts on metrics, such as CPU utilization, so that you can be notified if part of your infrastructure is not performing as expected. Stackdriver Logging collects, stores, and manages log entries. Log data that needs to be stored more than 30 days can be exported to Cloud Storage, BigQuery, or Cloud Pub/Sub. Cloud Trace provides distributed tracing services to identify slow-running parts of code. Cloud Debug provides for creating snapshots of running code and injecting log messages without altering source code.
You can always get the status of GCP services at the Google Cloud Status Dashboard at https://status.cloud.google.com/.
The Pricing Calculator is designed to help you estimate the cost of almost 40 services in the GCP.
