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Google Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications.

Key Features

  • Metrics: Collects metrics from Google Cloud, AWS, and on-prem.
  • Dashboards: Visualize data with custom charts.
  • Alerting: Notify teams when metrics violate policies.

Use Cases

  • Infrastructure Monitoring: CPU, Memory, Disk usage.
  • App Monitoring: Request latency, error rates.
  • Uptime Checks: Verify endpoints are reachable from around the world.

Key Concepts

  • Workspace: The container for monitoring data (usually mapped to a Project).
  • MQL: Monitoring Query Language for complex analysis.
  • Ops Agent: Unified agent for collecting logs and metrics from VMs.