Guides: How to get started with Google Cloud's Observability
Documentation, real-world examples, use cases, and other resources to build with Google Cloud's Observability.
An overview of the tools that make up the suite
Documentation and architecture
Logging
- Which should you use: Logging agent or client library?
- Write and query log entries using a Python script
- Ops Agent overview: Collect logs from applications on VMs
- Install the Ops Agent on a single VM
- Managing GKE logs
- Viewing GKE logs
- How logs are routed and stored
- Logs Explorer deep dive—for troubleshooting
- Log Analytics, powered by BigQuery—for advanced analytics
- Log-based metrics overview
- Cloud Audit Logs overview
Monitoring
- Install the Ops Agent for Compute Engine VMs
- Installing and managing the Ops Agent using third-party automation tools
- Managed Service for Prometheus overview
- PromQL in Cloud Monitoring
- Introduction to alerting
- Managing notification channels
- Creating uptime checks
- Create user-defined metrics with OpenCensus
Trace
Quickstarts and tutorials
Logging
- Quickstarts
- Cloud Logging Tour and Introduction Quickstart
- Install the Ops Agent With Terraform
- Logging Quickstart (Node.js)
- View syslog logs collected from an Apache Web Server installed on a VM
- Tutorials
- Fundamentals of Cloud Logging
- Cloud Logging on GKE
- Log Analytics on Google Cloud
- Creating and Alerting on Logs-based Metrics
- Debugging apps on GKE
Monitoring
Blogs, videos, and podcasts
Logging
- Blogs
- Log Analytics in Cloud Logging is now GA
- Top 10 reasons to get started with Log Analytics today
- Gleaning security insights from audit logs with Log Analytics
- Moving to Log Analytics for BigQuery export users
- Log-based Metrics in Action
- Cloud Logging pricing for Cloud Admins: How to approach it & save cost
- Videos
- Getting started with Cloud Logging
- Uncovering insights with Log Analytics powered by BigQuery in Cloud Operations
- Regionalizing your logs with Google Cloud
- Podcasts
- A conversation about Log Analytics
Monitoring
- Blogs
- Kubernetes control plane metrics in GKE
- Cloud Monitoring further embraces open source by adding PromQL
- Monitor VM instances with Prometheus and Ops Agent
- Snooze your alert policies in Cloud Monitoring
- How The Home Depot gets a single pane of glass for metrics across 2,200 stores
- Videos
- Create alerts from your logs in Google Cloud
- Managed Service for Prometheus deep dive
- Best practices for Cloud Monitoring
- Installing the Ops Agent to troubleshoot third-party applications
- Podcasts
- A Managed Service for Prometheus conversation with The Home Depot
Trace
- Blogs
- Enabling SRE best practices: new contextual traces in Cloud Logging
- Service Mesh: Working with external services - Metrics and Traces
- 3 best practices to reduce application downtime with Google Cloud’s API monitoring tools
- Videos
- Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Cloud Trace
- Analyzing distributed traces to find performance bottlenecks
- Distributed tracing for web applications
