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Observability in Google Cloud

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Updated 03/2026

This course is all about application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.

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4 hr 30 min

42 Exercises

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Course Description

Welcome to Observability in Google Cloud, the second part of a two-part course series. It is suggested that you complete part 1, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, prior to taking this course. This course is all about application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.

Prerequisites

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1

Introduction

Welcome to Observability in Google Cloud, the second part of a two-part course series. It is suggested that you complete part 1, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, prior to taking this course.

Course Introduction

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Configuring Google Cloud services for observability

In this module, we will take some time to examine the art of configuring Google Cloud services for observability.

Introduction

Introduction to Ops Agent

Non-VM resources

Cloud Operations for GKE

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Exposing user-defined metrics

Monitoring a Compute Engine by using Ops Agent

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3

Monitoring Google Cloud Network

In this module, let’s spend some time analyzing Google’s Virtual Private Cloud.

Introduction

VPC Flow Logs

Firewall Rules Logging

Load Balancer Logging

Cloud NAT Logs

Packet Mirroring

Network Intelligence Center

Analyzing Network Traffic with VPC Flow Logs

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4

Investigating application performance issues

When deploying applications to Google Cloud, the Application Performance Management products (Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler) provide insight into how your code and services are functioning. The tools also help troubleshoot when needed.

Introduction

Error Reporting

Cloud Trace

View Application Latency with Cloud Trace

Cloud Profiler

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Quiz Question 3

5

Optimizing the costs for Google Cloud Observability

In our final module we discuss optimizing the costs for Google Cloud Observability.

Introduction

Costs and pricing

Bill estimation

Cost control best practices

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Course summary

This brings us to the end of the “Observability in Google Cloud” course! Let's do a quick recap of what was covered.

Course summary

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