Why it matters

Monitoring is table stakes. Cloud Monitoring is GCP default.

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The architecture

Metrics: from GCP services + custom.

Dashboards: visualize.

Alerts: policy-based.

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Monitoring components.
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How it works end to end

Alerts: notification channels (email, PagerDuty, Slack).

SLOs: define + track.

Uptime checks: synthetic monitoring.

Custom metrics via OpenTelemetry.