This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Part 1: covers identifying recommended Stackdriver Monitoring metrics to use for a data processing pipeline Part 2: covers how to using the Stackdriver Dashboards API to implement the charts and dashboards described in part 1 from a JSON template. What should go in the Dashboard I spend…

I spend a lot of time thinking through different architecture designs and some time ago I developed a set of design principles that I call SAS/COM, for short. It’s an acronym for Scalability, Availability, Security, Cost, Operations and Maintenance. I’ll make the claim that any architecture has to consider these…

This post is part 6 in the Stackdriver Automation series. In this post, I will walk through the steps that you can use to automate the management of Stackdriver Monitoring Uptime Checks with Terraform. Uptime Checks Uptime Checks lets you verify the availability of your service via HTTP, HTTPS or TCP health…

This post is part 5 in the Stackdriver Automation series. In this post, I will walk through the steps that you can use to automate the management of Stackdriver Monitoring Alerting Policies with Terraform. SLI Alerting Metrics Head over to part 2 for the details of the alerting scenarios implemented with these Alerting…

In my quest for improving life through automation, I wrote a 3-part series about Stackdriver Monitoring Automation that used Google Cloud Deployment Manager to deploy Monitoring resources. I recently sat down to translate that automation into Terraform since Stackdriver Monitoring support has been added to Terraform. …

This post is part 3 in the Stackdriver Automation series. In part 1 and part 2, I covered automating the management of Stackdriver Groups and Alerting Policies, respectively. In this post, I will walk through the steps that you can use to automate the management of Uptime Checks. …

This post is part 2 in the Stackdriver Automation series. In part 1, I covered automating the management of Stackdriver Groups. In this post, I will walk through the steps that you can use to automate the management of Alerting Policies. …

Many developers and organizations recognize that automation is critical to the long-term management of cloud infrastructure and applications. Developers, Site Reliability Engineers and Operations teams just getting started with Stackdriver Monitoring may wonder what components can be used with automation. …

Stackdriver announced new pricing in June meant to simplify the pricing structure. Moving to a usage-based pricing model brought Stackdriver in line with other consumption-based cloud products which makes it easier to reason about the cost of using the product. I recently went through the GCP bill analysis exercise to…