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Google Cloud Observability
Product overview
Observability overview
Agent observability
Fundamentals
Telemetry storage overview
View and analyze telemetry
Configure observability scopes
Support for CMEKs
Application Monitoring
Application Monitoring overview
Set up Observability for Application Monitoring
Investigate applications, services, and workloads
View AI resources
View topology
Application-specific labels and attributes
Supported infrastructure
Instrument your application
Service monitoring
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Concepts in service monitoring
Microservices
Overview
Viewing your microservices
Defining a microservice
Using microservice dashboards
Creating an SLO
Using SLO-based alerts
Alerting on your burn rate
Creating an alerting policy (console)
Creating an alerting policy (API)
Working with the SLO API
Constructs in the API
Working with the API
Creating a service-level indicator
Retrieving SLO data
Creating SLIs from metrics
Overview
Using Load Balancing metrics
Using platform and service metrics
Introduction
Request-response services
Data storage and retrieval services
Data processing services
Using logs-based metrics
Using Prometheus metrics
Observability for GKE
Analyze telemetry with SQL
Query and analyze
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Sample SQL queries
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About analytics views
Create, query, and manage analytics views
Optimize costs
Optimize costs with the Cost Explorer
About cost and utilization data
Control access
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Use VPC Service Controls
Audit logging
Collect telemetry
Get started with OpenTelemetry
Application developers
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Instrument your applications
Choose an instrumentation approach
Samples that use collector-based exports
Overview
Go sample
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Node.js sample
Python sample
Use OpenTelemetry zero-code instrumentation for Java
Migrate from Trace exporter to OTLP
Advanced Topics
Add custom metrics and traces
Correlate metrics and traces using exemplars
Observe agentic applications
Collect prompts and responses from agentic applications
Collect and view multimodal prompts and responses
Agent Development Kit framework example
LangGraph framework example
Investigate MCP calls
Instrument self-hosted MCP servers
Collect telemetry
Use the Google-Built OpenTelemetry Collector
Overview
Google-Built OpenTelemetry Collector examples
Deploy the Collector on GKE
Deploy the Collector on Container-Optimized VMs
Deploy the Collector on Cloud Run
Deploy the Collector on Compute Engine VMs
Manage secrets in Collector configuration
Troubleshoot the Google-Built OpenTelemetry Collector
Ingest telemetery in OTLP format
OTLP support in Google Cloud Observability
Migrate collectors to use OTLP exporters
Use curl to write OTLP logs to the Telemetry API
Tutorial: Deploy and use the collector
Use SDKs to send metrics from applications
Use Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
Overview
Set up Prometheus metric collection
Get started with managed collection
Get started with self-deployed collection
Get started with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Get started with the Ops Agent for Compute Engine
Get started with Prometheus metrics in Cloud Run
Get started with OTLP metrics in Cloud Run
Set up PromQL querying
Query using Cloud Monitoring
Query using Grafana
Query using the Prometheus API or UI
Using PromQL for Cloud Monitoring metrics
Import Grafana dashboards into Cloud Monitoring
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Set up rule evaluation and alerting
Create PromQL alerts in Cloud Monitoring
Managed rule evaluation and alerting
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Set up commonly used exporters
Introduction
Application exporters
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Use Prometheus exemplars
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Configuring your metrics scopes
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Ops Agent overview
Install the Ops Agent
All installation methods
Install the Ops Agent during VM creation
Install and manage the Ops Agent by using VM Extension Manager policies
Install the Ops Agent on a fleet of VMs by using agent policies
Overview
Use agent policies (GA)
Use agent policies (Beta)
Install the Ops Agent on a fleet of VMs by using automation tools
Install the Ops Agent on individual VMs
Manage the Ops Agent
Authorize the Ops Agent
Configure the Ops Agent
Use the Telemetry API to collect metrics, logs, and traces
Use log rotation for Ops Agent self logs
Manage VMs covered by the Ops Agent OS policy
Troubleshoot the Ops Agent
Overview
Find troubleshooting information
Troubleshoot credentials
Troubleshoot installation and start-up
Troubleshoot data ingestion
Monitor and collect logs from third-party applications
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