Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Monitoring is a GCP service that collects metrics, events, and metadata from multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures in real time. Cloud Monitoring helps us understand how well our resources are performing and if there is something wrong that requires immediate attention. Cloud Monitoring is a medium through which SRE best practices can be implemented and to ensure that applications are meeting their set SLAs. Cloud Monitoring consists of out-of-the-box dashboards. These can be used to visualize insights into key factors that impact SLIs and SLOs such as latency, throughput, and more. Cloud Monitoring is also critical for incident management as alerts can be generated from key metrics, and these alerts can be sent as notifications to configured notification channels.

This section on Cloud Monitoring deep dives into several key areas/properties, such as workspaces, dashboards, Metrics explorer, uptime checks, alerting, access controls, and the Monitoring agent...