Chapter 6: Configuring Services for Observability

You cannot fix what you don't know is broken. And you don't want to find out your system is broken or underperforming when issues are being flagged by users, at which point it's already too late to prevent an impact on the business. Even worse, you don't want to learn your environment has been compromised when an attacker has already gotten hold of important information or done critical damage to your system. For these and many other reasons, which you will learn in this chapter, observability is a crucial pillar of great cloud solutions.

In this chapter, you will learn how to design a monitoring solution with Google Cloud, apply logging and debugging tools to applications and services, and analyze logs and metrics from a single pane of glass. You will familiarize yourself with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging, Google Cloud's primary monitoring and logging services, and learn how to set up actionable alerts...