Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring provides metrics, dashboards, alerting, and operational visibility for GCP resources and applications.
What it does
Metrics and monitoring.
When to use
Use Cloud Monitoring when you need observability into system health, infrastructure metrics, and application behavior in GCP.
Key Concepts
Metrics provide visibility into performance and resource usage.
Dashboards help teams track health and trends visually.
Alerts notify teams when systems cross critical thresholds.
Monitoring is essential for reliability and incident response.
Common Use Cases
Monitoring application and infrastructure performance.
Creating operational dashboards for teams.
Alerting on outages, high latency, or resource exhaustion.
Interview Questions
What is Cloud Monitoring?
Why are metrics important in cloud operations?
How do alerting systems support reliability?