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Monitoring

Metric Scope

Is single pane of glass where you can see resources from multiple projects. Any role allowed access to a metrics scope can view all data with in that scope. To control access to specific project, create separate metric scope for the project.

Logging

  • Stored for 30 days
  • Data can be exported to Cloud Storage, BigQuery or pubsub.
  • Big query can analyse and visualize with Looker studio
  • Pub/sub enables streaming of logs to endpoint or apps

Error reporting

Trace

Latency from resources like App engine, LB or apps instrumented with

Profiler

Analyze CPU, memory intensive processes

Types of Audit logs

  • Admin Activity : Always on, record API calls activity that modify metadata or configuration of resource.
  • Data Access : API calls that reads metadata or configuration, alsouser driven API calls that manage user-provided resource data. Data access logging disabled except for BigQuery by default. Can enable to send data to service other than BigQuery
  • System Event : Records Google cloud actions.
  • Policy denied : Records when policy denies access to resource. Enabled by default and cannot disable. However can add exclusion filters.