Design your Landing Zone — Design Considerations Part 3 — Monitoring, Logging, Billing and Labelling (Google Cloud Adoption Series)

Welcome to Part 3 of Landing Zone Design Considerations. This is part of the Google Cloud Adoption and Migration: From Strategy to Operation series.

In this part I’ll cover:

• Monitoring strategy
• Logging strategy
• Billing management and billing exports, and labelling

9. Monitoring Strategy

Monitoring is the process of collecting, processing, aggregating and displaying real time and historical quantitative data about a system.

Metrics

Google Cloud provides out-of-the-box monitoring, through the Cloud Monitoring component (formerly known as Stackdriver) of Google Cloud Operations (GCO) Suite. Cloud Monitoring automatically ingests over 1500 different metrics from over 100 different Google Cloud resources. There is no cost for ingestion of these metrics. For example:

Cloud Monitoring ingests metrics from Google Cloud services and applications

In addition, we can ingest metrics such as:

• Custom metrics, where we programmatically create custom telemetry using, e.g. with the Cloud Monitoring API, with OpenCensus, and (for GKE) with Prometheus.