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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.

45 minutes
cloud/gcp
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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

gcpmonitoringobservabilityassociate-cloud-engineer

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This lab is part of the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer course

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