Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), hosted uptime probes, and application instrumentation. Using the BindPlane service, you can also collect this data from over 150 common application components, on-premise systems, and hybrid cloud systems. Google Cloud's operations suite ingests that data and generates insights via dashboards, charts, and alerts. BindPlane is included with your Google Cloud project at no additional cost.

To collect metrics data from your Compute Engine instances, create an Agent Policy that automatically installs and maintains the Google Cloud's operations suite agents across your fleet of VMs.

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Guides

Reference

Resources

Training and tutorials

Try Monitoring tutorials, training courses, and Qwiklabs from Google Cloud.

Qwiklabs

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

This one-day course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies.

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Overview

Introduction to Cloud Monitoring

Learn how you can you can use Cloud Monitoring to collect and view performance characteristics of your system, how you can monitor the availability of your services, and how you can be notified of problems with your services.

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Concept

Metrics, time series, and resources

Learn about core concepts of Cloud Monitoring's model: monitored resource types, metric types, and time series.

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Tutorial

Cloud Monitoring agent

Learn about the capabilities of the Monitoring agent, how to install and manage the agent, and how to monitor third-party applications.

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Tutorial

Uptime checks

If you want the ability to be notified if your service isn't responding to HTTP, HTTP, or TPC traffic, then you want to create an uptime check.

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Tutorial

Alerting

Learn how to configure alerts so that you are notified if there are poblems with an application or service.

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Tutorial

Charting data with Metrics Explorer

Learn how quickly create a chart to display data interesting to you.

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Tutorial

Charts and Dashboards

Learn about dashboards for Google services, and how to create custom dashboards.

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Tutorial

Custom metrics

Learn how to create and monitor your own metrics.

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Tutorial

Monitoring Query Language

Learn about a query language designed for Cloud Monitoring.

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Use case

Managing Cloud Monitoring dashboards automatically using the Cloud Monitoring API

Learn how to install dashboard configurations stored in GitHub.

Dashboards API

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Use case

Autoscaling an instance group with Cloud Monitoring custom metrics

Learn how to set up a Compute Engine managed instance group that autoscales based on the value of a Cloud Monitoring custom metric.

Autoscaling custom metrics

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Use case

SAP HANA monitoring agent user guide

By using Cloud Monitoring, you can build dashboards to visualize your SAP HANA metrics and set up alerts based on metric.

SAP agent

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Use case

Logging and monitoring on-premises resources with Blue Medora

Describes the considerations and design patterns for using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and BindPlane to provide logging and monitoring services for on-premises resources.

On-Prem API

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Use case

Cloud Monitoring metric export

Learn how to export Cloud Monitoring metrics for long-term analysis.

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Videos