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Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), synthetic monitors, and application instrumentation. Cloud Monitoring ingests that data and generates insights with dashboards, charts, and alerts.

To collect metrics data from your Compute Engine instances, create an Agent Policy that automatically installs and maintains the Google Cloud Observability agents across your fleet of VMs.

To collect metrics from on-premises and hybrid-cloud systems and applications, we recommend using Bindplane.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

This one-day course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.

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Cloud Monitoring overview

Learn how you can you can use Cloud Monitoring to collect and view performance characteristics of your system, how you can monitor the availability of your services, and how you can be notified of problems with your services.

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Metrics, time series, and resources

Learn about core concepts of Cloud Monitoring's model: monitored resource types, metric types, and time series.

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Collect Apache web server metrics with the Ops Agent

Learn how to collect and monitor metrics from an Apache web server installed on a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance by using the Ops Agent.

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Get notified if your app stops responding

Learn how to get notified if your application stops responding to HTTP requests.

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View and customize VM dashboards

Learn how to view and customize dashboards for your Compute Engine VM instances.

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Synthetic monitors

Learn how to test the availability, consistency, and performance of your services, applications, web pages, and APIs.

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User-defined metrics overview

Learn how you can create metrics that capture application-specific data or client-side system data.

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PromQL in Cloud Monitoring

Learn how to use the Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) in Cloud Monitoring.

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SAP HANA monitoring agent user guide

By using Cloud Monitoring, you can build dashboards to visualize your SAP HANA metrics and set up alerts based on metric.

SAP agent

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Logging and monitoring on-premises resources with BindPlane

Describes the considerations and design patterns for using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and BindPlane to provide logging and monitoring services for on-premises resources.

On-Prem API

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Cloud Monitoring metric export

Learn how to export Cloud Monitoring metrics for long-term analysis.

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