Cloud Monitoring Alerts and Ops Agent
Create a small Compute Engine VM, install the Ops Agent, configure uptime checks and metric-based alerting policies, and inspect alert notification concepts.
Lab Overview
Master Google Cloud Monitoring for operational visibility. Create a small Compute Engine VM, install the Ops Agent for system metrics collection, configure uptime checks to monitor availability, create metric-based alerting policies with conditions and notification channels, and understand alert lifecycle and incident management.
What You'll Learn
Create a Compute Engine VM for monitoring targets
Install and verify Ops Agent on a Linux VM
Configure uptime checks for service availability
Create metric-based alerting policies
Understand notification channels and alert lifecycle
Prerequisites
Basic command line familiarity
Familiarity with Compute Engine VMs
Technologies Covered
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This lab is part of the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer course
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