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Enabling SRE best practices: new contextual traces in Cloud Logging

Nov 10, 2021 By Eyamba Ita In Google Operations

The need for relevant and contextual telemetry data to support online services has grown in the last decade as businesses undergo digital transformation. These data are typically the difference between proactively remediating application performance issues or costly service downtime. Distributed tracing is a key capability for improving application performance and reliability, as noted in SRE best practices.

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Innovations in cloud network security

Nov 5, 2021 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Learn about innovations in cloud network security over a global network. This includes Google Cloud innovations released this year from DDoS and Web Application Firewall (WAF), Google Cloud Armor, Google Cloud firewalls, and Google Cloud IDS - the newest network based intrusion detection solution.
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Best practices for Cloud Operations in the enterprise

Nov 3, 2021 By Google Operations In Google Operations
How can you get the most value out of Cloud Operations, especially as your Cloud footprint grows? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, we look at the enterprise best practices for setting up and using Cloud Operations. Watch to learn how to improve the security of your services, better manage capacity, and keep your users happy!
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Introducing Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Nov 2, 2021 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system which helps you collect, store, query, and get alerts on metrics that are important to your applications and infrastructure. In this video, we introduce Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus which is designed to help you scale your monitoring. Watch to learn how you can configure and manage Prometheus to keep up with the metrics from all of your successful services!
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How to do serverless monitoring right #shorts

Oct 28, 2021 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Monitoring CPU load and memory usage is common practice, but with serverless no action is required. In this video, we quickly explain that if your Cloud Run instances start hitting high CPU load, Google Cloud will automatically spin up new instances for you, and vice versa!
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How to use metrics scopes in Cloud Monitoring

Oct 20, 2021 By Google Operations In Google Operations
You've got Cloud Monitoring all set up in your project - but what do you do if you need to manage multiple projects and unify monitoring across them? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, we look at Cloud Monitoring metrics scopes and show you how to use them to monitor multiple Cloud projects. Watch to learn how to use the Cloud Console to manage Metrics Scopes, view metrics from resources in multiple projects, and automate configurations using the API!
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Google Cloud Monitoring 101: Understanding metric types

Oct 18, 2021 By Rakesh Dhoopar In Google Operations

Whether you are moving your applications to the cloud or modernizing them using Kubernetes, observing cloud-based workloads is more challenging than observing traditional deployments. When monitoring on-prem monoliths, operations teams had full visibility over the entire stack and full control over how/what telemetry data is collected (from infrastructure to platform to application data).

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10 years of cloud infrastructure with Eric Brewer

Oct 8, 2021 By Google Operations In Google Operations
In this video, Google Cloud Developer Advocate, Stephanie Wong, speaks with Google Fellow, Eric Brewer, about his experience building infrastructure, including Kubernetes, over the last decade at Google. You’ll get a window into what it was like to help propel Kubernetes into one of the largest open source projects today.
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