Summary

In this chapter, we learned a lot about using GCP tools to understand the behavior of your deployed applications. We started this chapter by talking about Stackdriver monitoring and logging, which allow you to monitor and capture application logs. We got our hands dirty by deploying a web app and setting it up with monitoring and logging. We then looked at Stackdriver error reporting, which aggregates and displays errors in your cloud services. Remember that Stackdriver error reporting works with Google App engine and Google cloud functions, and beta services include GCP Compute Engine and AWS EC2. We then dug deeper into the Stackdriver APM suite, which includes Stackdriver debugger, the Stackdriver profiler, and Stackdriver Trace. These three tools combined give us a much richer understanding of how our application behaves in production environments, without having to...