Google Cloud — Monitoring

Overview

* Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications.
* Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components including Cassandra, Nginx, Apache Web Server, Elasticsearch, and many others.
* Cloud Monitoring ingests that data and generates insights via dashboards, charts, and alerts. Cloud Monitoring alerting helps you collaborate by integrating with Slack, PagerDuty, HipChat, Campfire, and more.

In the below video, you will learn how to monitor a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring. You’ll also install monitoring and logging agents for your VM which collects more information from your instance, which could include metrics and logs from 3rd party apps.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9IRgPAunNc

Steps for setup Cloud Monitoring:

Task 1: Setup and requirements
Task 2: Create a Compute Engine instance
Task 3: Add Apache2 HTTP Server to your instance
Task 4: Create an uptime check
Task 5: Create an…