GSP089_Cloud-Monitoring-Qwik-Start

GSP089 —— Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start

Table of Contents （🔎 Click to expand／collapse）

• Overview
• Install the Monitoring and Logging Agents
  • Command Line Interface
  • Graphical User Interface
• Create Monitoring workspaces
• Create Uptime Check
• Create Alearting Policy
• Create Dashboard
• View Logs
• Check Uptime Check Results and Triggered Alerts
• References

Overview

Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components including Cassandra, Nginx, Apache Web Server, Elasticsearch, and many others. Cloud Monitoring ingests that data and generates insights via dashboards, charts, and alerts. Cloud Monitoring alerting helps you collaborate by integrating with Slack, PagerDuty, HipChat, Campfire, and more.

Install the Monitoring and Logging Agents

• The Cloud Monitoring agent is a collectd-based daemon that gathers system and application metrics (e.g. disk, CPU, network and process metrics) from virtual machine instances and sends them to Monitoring.
• The Cloud Logging agent sent or stream info to Cloud Monitoring in the Cloud Console.

Command Line Interface

Install the Cloud Monitoring agent and Cloud Logging agent in the VMs with following commands:

# install the Cloud Monitoring agent
$ curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/add-monitoring-agent-repo.sh
$ sudo bash add-monitoring-agent-repo.sh
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install stackdriver-agent -y

# install the Cloud Logging agent
$ curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/add-logging-agent-repo.sh
$ sudo bash add-logging-agent-repo.sh
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-fluentd

Graphical User Interface

To install the agents on the VM:

1. From the Navigation Menu go to Monitoring.
2. In the Monitoring Overview window, click VIEW GCE DASHBOARD.
3. Click on the VMs Dashboard link under Compute Engine. You will see your VMs listed.
4. Under the Monitoring Agent Status (or Logging Agent Status) for VMs, click Install Agent. This will bring up an Agent Details window on the right side, which is used to install the agent.
5. In the Agent Details window, ensure the operating system and click Install Agent.

Create Monitoring workspaces

Follow the steps below to create the monitoring workspace:

1. In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Monitoring.
2. Wait for your workspace to be provisioned.

When the Monitoring dashboard opens, your workspace is ready.

Create Uptime Check

Uptime checks verify that a resource is always accessible. Following the steps to create update time check of instances:

1. In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Monitoring > Uptime checks.
2. Click Create Uptime Check and then fill the fields.
3. Click Test to verify that your uptime check can connect to the resource.
4. Click Create when you see a green check mark everything can connect.

Create Alearting Policy

Use Cloud Monitoring to create one or more alerting policies:

1. In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Monitoring > Alerting.
2. Click Create Policy > Add Condition and then fill the fields.
3. Click Next > Save.

Create Dashboard

We can display the metrics collected by Cloud Monitoring in our own charts and dashboards. Create the charts for the lab metrics and a custom dashboard following the steps below:

1. In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Monitoring > Dashboard.
2. Click Create Dashboard and then add charts.

View Logs

Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging are closely integrated. Check out the logs by following steps:

1. In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Logging > Logs Explorer.
2. Choose the logs we want to see by clicking Resource and then selecting resources.
3. Click Add.
4. Click Stream logs.

Check Uptime Check Results and Triggered Alerts

• [Uptime Check] In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Monitoring > Uptime checks.
• [Alerts] In the Cloud Console, click Navigation menu > Monitoring > Alerting.

References

• Google Cloud operations suite agents | Operations Suite Documentation