Chapter 18
Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating

THIS CHAPTER COVERS THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES OF THE GOOGLE ASSOCIATE CLOUD ENGINEER CERTIFICATION EXAM:

•  4.6 Monitoring and logging
•  2.1 Planning and estimating GCP product use using the Pricing Calculator

 Monitoring system performance is an essential part of cloud engineering. In this chapter, you will learn about Stackdriver, a GCP service for resource monitoring, logging, tracing, and debugging. You will start by creating alerts based on resource metrics and custom metrics. Next, you will turn your attention to logging with a discussion of how to create log sinks to store logging data outside of Stackdriver. You’ll also see how to view and filter log data. Stackdriver includes diagnostic tools such as Cloud Trace and Cloud Debugger, which you’ll learn about as well. We’ll close out the chapter with a review of the Pricing Calculator for estimating the cost of GCP resources and services...