This hands-on lab challenges you to implement a comprehensive logging and metrics management solution for a digital retail company. Using Google Cloud services like Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and the Managed Service for Prometheus, you'll configure data ingestion, create actionable dashboards, and set up alerting policies. Learn how to handle sensitive data, optimize logging costs, and create synthetic metrics for operational insights. By the end of the lab, you'll have deep experience managing observability in GCP, preparing you for real-world DevOps challenges and the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
As part of a digital transformation initiative, a retail company aims to enhance its monitoring capabilities. The key goal is to improve uptime and customer experience by targeting a 99.95% service availability with a response time under 200ms. Your role is to integrate advanced logging and metrics solutions using Google Cloud to achieve these operational objectives efficiently while keeping costs within budget.
