1) Introduction to Google Cloud Monitoring Tools

• 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) Avoiding Customer Pain

• Construct a monitoring base on the four golden signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation

• Measure customer pain with SLIs

• Define critical performance measures

• Create and use SLOs and SLAs

• Achieve developer and operation harmony with error budgets

3) Alerting Policies

• Develop alerting strategies

• Define alerting policies

• Add notification channels

• Identify types of alerts and common uses for each

• Construct and alert on resource groups

• Manage alerting policies programmatically

4) Monitoring Critical Systems

• Choose best practice monitoring project architectures

• Differentiate Cloud IAM roles for monitoring

• Use the default dashboards appropriately

• Build custom dashboards to show resource consumption and application load

• Define uptime checks to track aliveness and latency

5) Configuring Google Cloud Services for Observability

• Integrate logging and monitoring agents into Compute Engine VMs and images

• Enable and use Kubernetes Monitoring

• Extend and clarify Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus

• Expose custom metrics through code and with the help of OpenCensus

6) Advanced Logging and Analysis

• Identify and choose among resource tagging approaches

• Define log sinks (inclusion filters) and exclusion filters

• Create metrics based on logs

• Define custom metrics

• Use Error Reporting to link application errors to Logging

• Export logs to BigQuery

7) Monitoring Network Security and Audit Logs

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs

• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring

• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center

• Use Admin Activity audit logs to track changes to the configuration or metadata of resources

• Use Data Access audit logs to track accesses or changes to user-provided resource data

• Use System Event audit logs to track GCP administrative actions

8) Managing Incidents

• Define incident management roles and communication channels

• Mitigate incident impact

• Troubleshoot root causes

• Resolve incidents

• Document incidents in a post-mortem process

9) Monitoring Network Security and Audit Logs

• Collect and analyze VPC Flow logs and Firewall Rules logs

• Enable and monitor Packet Mirroring

• Explain the capabilities of Network Intelligence Center

• Use Admin Activity audit logs to track changes to the configuration or metadata of resources

• Use Data Access audit logs to track accesses or changes to user-provided resource data

• Use System Event audit logs to track GCP administrative actions

10) Optimizing Stackdriver Costs

• Understand Stackdriver billing

• Analyze Stackdriver resource utilization

• Implement best practices for Stackdriver cost control