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Mind nuances when you stop Google Cloud project from bleeding money

Mind nuances when you stop Google Cloud project from bleeding money

If you do not care about how much money you spend on your Google Cloud project then this post won’t be interesting to you. If you do, you might find the information below useful. Google Cloud documentation gives examples of the automated cost control responses. It describes an option to send a notification message to PubSub in addition to the email each time the billing budget alert is triggered. The specific example that stops the usage shows a Cloud Function (code in NodeJS and Python) that disables the billing account on the project.
Health checks: What? When? How?

Health checks: What? When? How?

This article surveys various health checks in Google Cloud. If you want to learn more, leave your preferences in the feedback form. Generally speaking, a health check is a function or a method to indicate a general state (a.k.a. health) of the underlying service. Some products elaborate the definition of “general state” to be something particular, such as the ability of the service to respond to requests. Health checks are an important instrument of service observability.
Etcd size monitoring in GKE

Etcd size monitoring in GKE

Google Cloud lets you run Kubernetes in three flavors: Vanilla is when you do all on your own. This is also the quickest “lift and shift” strategy to migrate your cluster to cloud. Essentially it is just a group of virtual machines that run on Google Compute Engine (GCE). Managed that shifts administration and maintenance tasks from DevOps teams to the cloud service. See Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard cluster architecture and Autopilot for more details.

Define Google Cloud Managed Service for Monitoring

You may have seen this notice when opening SLOs Overview in Cloud Console. This notice announces a recent change in the way of defining services for Cloud Monitoring. Before the change, Cloud Monitoring automatically discovered services that were provisioned in AppEngine, Cloud Run or GKE. These services were automatically populated in the Services Overview dashboard. After the change, all services in the Services Overview dashboard have to be created explicitly. To simplify this task, when defining a new service in UI you are presented with a list of candidates that is built based on the auto-discovered services.

Google Cloud SLO demystified: Uncovering metrics behind predefined SLOs

Google Cloud supports service monitoring by defining and tracking SLO of the services based on their metrics that are ingested to Google Cloud. This support greatly simplifies implementing SRE practices for services that are deployed to Google Cloud or that store telemetry data there. To make it even more simple to developers, the service monitoring is able to automatically detect many types of managed services and supports predefined availability and latency SLI definitions for them.