In this lab, you will leverage Google Cloud Platform's observability tools to achieve operational excellence. You'll implement monitoring and logging for a microservices architecture running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The focus will be on setting up a scalable and reliable environment, complete with alerting and dashboards to ensure ongoing operational quality. Advanced techniques like profiling and benchmarking will also be explored, providing a comprehensive understanding of maintaining an optimal operations framework.
You are working for a tech company, CloudTech, which provides scalable API services. CloudTech aims to improve its operational excellence to ensure uninterrupted services to its growing customer base. They need a robust GKE setup with enhanced observability to reduce downtime and proactively handle issues. Current SLAs require 99.9% availability and issue resolution within 2 hours. Your role involves setting up Cloud Operations tools, configuring alerts, and ensuring adherence to the SLA requirements.
