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March 2022

How to set up Prometheus monitoring for your services

When you run applications in production, you need to monitor the infrastructure they run on - and collect important signals about application health like error rates and latency. In this episode of Engineering for Reliability with Google Cloud, Yuri will demonstrate how to instrument your service to expose application-specific telemetry with Prometheus and how to configure Google's managed service for Prometheus to collect those metrics.

Add severity levels to your alert policies in Cloud Monitoring

When you are dealing with a situation that fires a bevy of alerts, do you instinctively know which alerts are the most pressing? Severity levels are an important concept in alerting to aid you and your team in properly assessing which notifications should be prioritized. You can use these levels to focus on the issues deemed most critical for your operations and triage through the noise.

Get more insights from your Java applications logs

Today it is even easier to capture logs in your Java applications. Developers can get more data with their application logs using a new version of the Cloud Logging client library for Java. The library populates the current executing context implicitly with every ingested log entry. Read this if you want to learn how to get HTTP requests and tracing information and additional metadata in your logs without writing a single line of code.