You're reading from Architecting Google Cloud Solutions Learn to design robust and future-proof solutions with Google Cloud technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563308

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google App Engine

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Victor Dantas

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Google Cloud for Architects FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Mastering the Basics of Google Cloud

4. Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud

5. Chapter 3: Designing the Network

6. Chapter 4: Architecting Compute Infrastructure

7. Chapter 5: Architecting Storage and Data Infrastructure

8. Chapter 6: Configuring Services for Observability

9. Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Compliance

10. Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

11. Chapter 8: Approaching Big Data and Data Pipelines

12. Chapter 9: Jumping on the DevOps Bandwagon with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

13. Chapter 10: Re-Architecting with Microservices

14. Chapter 11: Applying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

15. Chapter 12: Achieving Operational Excellence

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Monitoring cloud services and analyzing logs

The primary components of a monitoring solution on GCP are Workspaces and the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging services. In this section, we will explore these services and also the monitoring and logging capabilities within Google Cloud.

The monitoring landscape in Google Cloud

Workspaces are where monitoring information is organized and can be created at no charge. The monitored resources can be in one or more Google Cloud projects and one or more AWS accounts. Every Workspace has a host project, which is the GCP project in which it is created. A Workspace can monitor up to 100 Google Cloud projects and AWS accounts, but it is the host project that has all the configurations related to dashboards, alerting policies, uptime checks, notification channels, and other group definitions that you configure.

In other words, the host project is where monitoring is centralized from a governance perspective. It is not uncommon for host...