1) Introduction to Google Cloud Operation Suite

• Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud operations- focused components: Logging, Monitoring, Error Reporting, and Service Monitoring

• Understand the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud application performance management focused components: Debugger, Trace, and Profiler

2) Monitoring Critical Systems

• Use Cloud Monitoring to view metrics for multiple cloud projects.

• Understand the cloud operations architecture

• Understand and demonstrate the purpose of using Monitoring Query Language (MQL) for monitoring

• Define uptime checks to track aliveness and latency

• Build custom dashboards to show resource consumption and application load

3) Alerting Policies

• Develop alerting strategies

• Define alerting policies

• Define error budget

• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each

• Understand the important of server-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and service-level agreements (SLAs)

4) Advanced Logging and Analysis

• understand the features and benefits of logs-based metrics

• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters

• Use Log Explorer and log analytics features on Google Cloud

• Export logs to BigQuery for analysis

5) Working with Audit Log 

•  Understand the features and functionalities of the different audit logs

• Use the best practices to implement audit logs

6) Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Integrate the Ops Agent with Compute Engine

• Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring

• Define the benefits of using Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

• Define the usage of PromQL to query Cloud Monitoring metrics, Open Telemetry, and custom metrics

7) Monitoring Google Cloud Network and Data Access

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs

• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring

• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center

8) Investigating Application Performance Issues

• Define the features and benefits of Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and
  Cloud Profiler

• Understand the functionalities of the Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and
  Cloud Profiler

9) Optimizing the Costs for Operations Suite

• Analyze resource utilization cost for monitoring related components within Google Cloud

• Implement best practices for controlling the cost of monitoring within
  Google Cloud