Course Overview
This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud.
Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.
Who should attend
This class is intended for the following participants:
- Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps personnel
 - Cloud developers and DevOps personnel
 
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, participants should:
- Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (GCF-CI) or have equivalent experience
 - Have basic scripting or coding familiarity
 - Be proficient with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
 
Course Objectives
- Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud’s operations suite.
 - Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects.
 - Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts.
 - Install and manage Ops Agent to collect logs for Compute Engine.
 - Explain Cloud Operations for GKE.
 - Analyze VPC Flow Logs and firewall rules logs.
 - Analyze and export Cloud Audit Logs instances.
 - Profile and identify resource-intensive functions in an application.
 - Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud.