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Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about observability and monitoring products, capabilities, and procedures.

Observability in Google Cloud

Monitoring, logging, tracing, profiling, and debugging for observability.

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Collect Prometheus metrics for your workloads.

Instrumentation and observability

Collect telemetry from your applications with instrumentation.

Training, blog articles, and more

Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources.

Troubleshoot distributed applications

View how to troubleshoot distributed applications by using Cloud Trace and Cloud Logging together.open_in_new

Explore log analytics: must-have tools for cloud security professionals

View how to access detailed logs of events and activities within your cloud environment.open_in_new

Effective alerting in Google Cloud

View how the relevance of what we are monitoring can help us support triage in advance.open_in_new

Observability and monitoring products by use case

Expand sections or use the filter to find products and guides for typical use cases.

Observability and monitoring

Integrated monitoring, logging, and trace managed services for applications and systems running on Google Cloud and beyond.

Google Cloud Observability

Monitor, log, trace, and profile your apps and services.

Cloud Logging

Store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud and AWS.

Cloud Monitoring

Analyze, monitor, and display the performance data collected from your applications and the Google Cloud services that you use.

Cloud Trace

Find performance bottlenecks in production.

Error Reporting

Identify and understand application errors.

Continuous profiling of production systems for large-scale operations.

Cloud Profiler

Continuously gather performance information using a low-impact CPU and heap profiling service.

Guides and blog posts

Observability for Google Kubernetes Engine

Understand the health of your applications and maintain application availability and reliability.

Virtual machine instances

Use Compute Engine instances that run the public images for Linux and Windows Server that Google provides, or that run your own private custom images.

Observe and monitor Compute Engine VMs

Access and view virtual machine (VM) metrics.

Cloud Run functions overview

Build and connect cloud services in a serverless execution environment.

Write Prometheus metrics from Cloud Run

Use the Prometheus sidecar to get Prometheus-style monitoring for Cloud Run services.

Terraform

Learn how to use Terraform to reliably provision infrastructure on Google Cloud.

App Hub

Discover and organize infrastructure resources into applications.

Moving to Log Analytics for BigQuery export users

View a post for migrating from BigQuery log sink to Log Analytics.

Creating custom notifications with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Run

Learn how to deliver Cloud Monitoring alert notifications to third-party services that don't have supported notification channels.

APIs and reference

Google Cloud CLI logging

Manage Cloud Logging.

Google Cloud CLI monitoring

Manage Monitoring dashboards.

Monitoring APIs and reference

View a list of the available monitoring APIs and reference content.

Logging APIs and reference

View a list of the available logging APIs and reference content.