Cloud Monitoring overview in GCP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a basic alert policy in Cloud Monitoring using gcloud CLI.

GCP

gcloud monitoring policies create --notification-channels=[1] --condition-display-name="High CPU Usage" --condition-filter="metric.type=\"compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization\"" --condition-threshold-value=0.8

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Aemail-channel

Bcpu-channel

Cdisk-channel

Dmemory-channel

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Common Mistakes

Using a metric name instead of a notification channel ID.

Leaving the notification channel blank.

The --notification-channels flag requires the ID of a notification channel, such as an email channel, to send alerts.

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medium

Complete the code to list all monitored resource descriptors in Cloud Monitoring.

GCP

gcloud monitoring resource-descriptors [1]

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Adescribe

Bcreate

Cdelete

Dlist

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Common Mistakes

Using describe which shows details for one resource only.

Using create or delete which modify resources.

The list command shows all monitored resource descriptors available in Cloud Monitoring.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to create a metric descriptor for custom metrics.

GCP

gcloud monitoring metric-descriptors create [1] --metric-kind=GAUGE --value-type=DOUBLE --unit="1" --description="Custom metric"

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Amy_metric

Bcustom.googleapis.com/my_metric

Ccompute.googleapis.com/my_metric

Dmetric/custom/my_metric

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Common Mistakes

Omitting the required prefix for custom metrics.

Using a Google Cloud predefined metric prefix.

Custom metric types must start with custom.googleapis.com/ to be valid in Cloud Monitoring.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a filter for CPU utilization metric with resource type 'gce_instance'.

GCP

filter="metric.type=[1] AND resource.type=[2]"

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Acompute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization

Bgce_instance

Ccustom.googleapis.com/cpu_utilization

Daws_ec2_instance

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Common Mistakes

Using a custom metric type instead of the predefined CPU utilization metric.

Using a resource type from another cloud provider.

The metric type for CPU utilization on Google Compute Engine instances is compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization and the resource type is gce_instance.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a JSON snippet for a Cloud Monitoring alert policy condition.

GCP

{
  "displayName": "High Memory Usage",
  "condition": {
    "displayName": [1],
    "conditionThreshold": {
      "filter": [2],
      "comparison": [3]
    }
  }
}

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A"High Memory Usage Condition"

B"metric.type=\"compute.googleapis.com/instance/memory/utilization\""

C"COMPARISON_GT"

D"memory_condition"

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Common Mistakes

Using unquoted strings for JSON values.

Using incorrect comparison operators.

The displayName is a string describing the condition. The filter specifies the metric type for memory utilization. The comparison uses COMPARISON_GT to trigger when usage is greater than the threshold.