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Automate malware scanning for files uploaded to Cloud Storage This document shows you how to build an event-driven pipeline that can help you automate the evaluation of files for malicious code. Products used: Cloud Logging, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Eventarc |
Automating cost optimizations with Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler, and Cloud Monitoring Demonstrates how to use Cloud Functions to identify and clean up wasted cloud resources, schedule functions to run with Cloud Scheduler, and use Monitoring alerting policies to execute them based on observed usage. Products used: Cloud Functions, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine |
Best practices and reference architectures for VPC design This guide introduces best practices and typical enterprise architectures for the design of virtual private clouds (VPCs) with Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Cloud VPN, Virtual Private Cloud |
Best practices for operating containers This article describes a set of best practices for making containers easier to operate. These practices cover a wide range of topics, from security to monitoring and logging. Their aim is to make applications easier to run in Google Kubernetes Engine... Products used: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
Cloud Monitoring metric export Describes a way to export Cloud Monitoring metrics for long-term analysis. Products used: App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Datalab, Looker Studio |
Collect logs on GKE Enterprise with Splunk Connect Describes how to install and use Splunk Connect for Kubernetes to collect logs from Kubernetes applications running on Anthos in Google Cloud. Products used: Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
Configuring SaaS data protection for Google Workspace data with Spin.AI How to configure SpinOne - All-in-One SaaS Data Protection with Cloud Storage. When you configure SpinOne, including its cybersecurity features, you can store SpinOne for Google Workspace backup data in Google... |
Cost optimization for Google Cloud's operations suite Describes ways that you can understand your usage of Google Cloud operations suite's collection of managed services and optimize your costs when using them. Products used: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Profiler, Cloud Trace, Error Reporting |
Customizing Cloud Logging logs for Google Kubernetes Engine with Fluentd Describes how to customize Fluentd logging for a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. You'll learn how to host your own configurable Fluentd daemonset to send logs to Cloud Logging... Products used: Cloud Logging, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
Disaster recovery planning guide The first part of a series that discusses disaster recovery (DR) in Google Cloud. This part provides an overview of the DR planning process: what you need to know in order to design and implement a DR plan. Subsequent parts discuss... Products used: Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Storage |
Hybrid and multicloud monitoring and logging patterns Discusses monitoring and logging architectures for hybrid and multicloud deployments, and provides best practices for implementing them by using Google Cloud. Products used: Anthos, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
Logging and monitoring on-premises resources with BindPlane Describes considerations and design patterns for using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and BindPlane to provide logging and monitoring services for on-premises resources. Products used: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring |
Helps you plan, design, and implement the process of migrating your application and infrastructure workloads to Google Cloud, including computing, database, and storage workloads. Products used: App Engine, Cloud Build, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Deployment Manager, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Container Registry, Data Catalog, Dataflow, Direct Peering, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Transfer Appliance |
Optimizing large-scale ingestion of analytics events and logs Describes an architecture for optimizing large-scale analytics ingestion on Google Cloud, where 'large-scale' means greater than 100,000 events per second, or having a total aggregate event payload size of over 100 MB per second. Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Logging, Cloud Pub/Sub, Compute Engine, Dataflow |
Patterns for scalable and resilient apps Introduces some patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential goals of many modern architecture exercises. A well-designed app scales up and down as demand increases and decreases, and is... Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine |
PCI Data Security Standard compliance Shows how to implement the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for your business on Google Cloud. Products used: App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Functions, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), VPC Service Controls |
Scenarios for exporting Cloud Logging data: Splunk Shows how to export selected logs from Cloud Logging into Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud in real time. Products used: Cloud Audit Logs, Cloud Logging, Cloud Pub/Sub |
Scenarios for exporting Cloud Logging: Compliance requirements Shows how to export logs from Cloud Logging to Cloud Storage to meet your organization's compliance requirements. Products used: Cloud Audit Logs, Cloud Logging, Cloud Storage |
Security log analytics in Google Cloud Shows how to collect, export, and analyze logs from Google Cloud to help you audit usage and detect threats to your data and workloads. Use the included threat detection queries for BigQuery or Chronicle, or bring your own SIEM. Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Looker Studio |
Sending notifications for Google Cloud events Shows DevOps teams how to get notifications for important Google Cloud events pushed to their collaboration platforms, such as Google Chat, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Products used: Cloud Functions, Cloud Logging, Cloud Pub/Sub |
Serverless web performance monitoring using Cloud Functions Describes how to create a web-performance-monitoring app using Google Cloud serverless technologies. Performance plays a major role in the success of any web app. If your site performs poorly, you might experience fewer sign-ups and... Products used: Cloud Functions, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Firestore |
Stream logs from Google Cloud to Splunk Create a production-ready, scalable, fault-tolerant, log export mechanism that streams logs and events from your resources in Google Cloud into Splunk. Products used: Cloud Logging, Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataflow |
Use distributed tracing to observe microservice latency Shows how to capture trace information on microservice applications using OpenTelemetry and Cloud Trace. Products used: Cloud Build, Cloud Trace, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |