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Cloud Next videos

• Video: Cloud Load Balancing best practices

  In this Cloud Next video, watch demos to learn how enterprise customers deploy Cloud Load Balancing and the best practices they use to deliver smart, secure, modern services across the globe.

• Video: DevOps 201 for application developers

  In this Cloud Next video, learn the pros and cons of the compute options available on Google Cloud, using Stackdriver for monitoring, logging, and diagnostics.

• Video: Using Cloud Audit Logs to help manage risks

  In this Cloud Next video, learn how you can alert on audit logs using Stackdriver or process and take action from audit logs by using Cloud Functions.

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Design patterns for exporting Stackdriver Logging

  This tutorial explores best practices for common logging export scenarios.

• Tutorial: Using Stackdriver Logging with IoT Core devices

  This tutorial demonstrates how to configure Cloud Functions for Firebase to relay device application logs from Cloud IoT to Logging.

• Tutorial: Splunk

  This tutorial shows how to export selected logs from Logging to Pub/Sub for ingestion into Splunk.

• Tutorial: Customizing logs for Google Kubernetes Engine with Fluentd

  This tutorial describes how to customize Fluentd logging for a GKE cluster.

• Tutorial: Using Stackdriver as a logging server for dedicated game servers

  This tutorial outlines how to use Stackdriver Logging instead of an on-premises logging server for application-specific logging.

• Tutorial: Using Stackdriver as a logging server for a VFX rendering pipeline

  This tutorial outlines how to use Stackdriver Logging instead of a logging server for application-specific logging.

• Tutorial: Using Stackdriver to get better visibility into your application's health

  In this codelab, learn how to get started using Stackdriver to monitor and review performance metrics and logs for Google Cloud services and VMs.

• Tutorial: Compliance requirements

  This tutorial shows how to export logs from Logging to Cloud Storage to meet your organization's compliance requirements.

• Tutorial: Security and access analytics

  This tutorial shows how to export logs from Logging to BigQuery to meet the security and analytics requirements of your organization's cloud infrastructure environment.

• Tutorial: PCI Data Security Standard compliance

  This tutorial helps you learn how to implement the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for your business on Google Cloud.

• Tutorial: Using the Stackdriver Logging driver for Docker

  This tutorial shows you how to use the Logging driver to upload logs from your Docker containers to Logging.

• Tutorial: Processing logs at scale using Dataflow

  In this tutorial learn how to use Google Cloud to build analytical pipelines that process log entries from multiple sources.

• Tutorial: Deploying Pega Platform using Compute Engine and Cloud SQL

  This tutorial shows you how to deploy Pega Platform, a business process management (BPM) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform, on Google Cloud.

• Tutorial: Stackdriver cost optimization

  This tutorial describes the ways that you can understand your Stackdriver usage and optimize your costs.

• Tutorial: Scenarios for exporting Stackdriver logs: Compliance requirements

  This tutorial describes how to export logs from Stackdriver Logging to Cloud Storage to meet your organization's compliance requirementss.

• Tutorial: Scenarios for exporting Stackdriver logs: Security and access analytics

  This tutorial describes how to export logs from Stackdriver Logging to BigQuery to meet the security and analytics requirements of your organization's cloud infrastructure environment.

• Tutorial: Logging and monitoring on-premises resources with Stackdriver and Blue Medora

  This tutorial describes the considerations and design patterns for using Stackdriver and BindPlane from Blue Medora to provide logging and monitoring services for on-premises resources.

Qwiklabs

• Qwiklab: Stackdriver qwik start

  This hands-on lab shows you how to monitor a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Stackdriver. You also install monitoring and logging agents for your VM which collects more information from your instance to provide visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health.

• Qwiklab: Monitoring and logging for Cloud Functions

  This hands-on lab shows you how to view your Cloud Functions with their execution times, execution counts, and memory usage in the Google Cloud Console. These metrics are also available in Stackdriver Monitoring.

• Qwiklab: Creating and alerting on logs-based metrics

  This hands-on lab shows you how to use both system and user-defined logs-based metrics to create charts and alerting policies.

• Qwiklab: Customizing logs for Google Kubernetes Engine with Fluentd

  In this hands-on lab, you learn how to integrate Fluentd—an open-source data collector for logging—with a GKE cluster to send logs to Stackdriver Logging.

• Qwiklab: Using Stackdriver Debugger, Logpoints, Trace, and Logging

  This hands-on lab takes you through Stackdriver to take a debug snapshot in your applications, add log points to a running application, trace your API calls, and view application logs.