Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite: Challenge Lab

Task 1: Configure Cloud Monitoring

Goto Navigation Menu -> Monitoring

Check it is enabled or not , if not enabled then enable it

Task 2: Configure a Compute Instance to generate Custom Cloud Monitoring metrics

Goto Navigation Menu -> Compute Engine -> VM instances

• Stop video-queue-monitor instances
• Edit video-queue-monitor instace:

• Go to Custom metadata
  • replace the startup-script:
    • replace MY_PROJECT_ID value with your PROJECT ID
    • replace MY_GCE_INSTANCE_ID value with your your video-queue-monitor Instance id (find it in top)
    • replace MY_GCE_INSTANCE_ZONE value with us-east1-b

Then Click on Save

• And Start/Resume video-queue-monitor instances

Task 3: Create a custom metric using Cloud Operations logging events

• Goto Navigation Menu -> Logging -> Log explorer

• Click show query and enable it and then paste this

  textPayload=~"file_format\: ([4,8]K).*"
  

  in query box and run query. Create Metric with name large_video_upload_rate,

  Click Create Metric

Task 4: Add custom metrics to the Media Dashboard in Cloud Operations Monitoring

• Goto Navigation Menu -> Monitoring -> Media_Dashboard

• Click Edit Dashboard -> Add Chart

• Select Line Chart

  • Resource and metric
    • Click VM instance -> Custom -> OpenCensus

Then Click Apply -> Save it

• Again Click Add Chart

• Select Line Chart

  • Resource and metric
    • paste this in search box large_video_upload_rate

Apply -> Save

Task 5: Create a Cloud Operations alert based on the rate of high resolution video file uploads

Go to Monitoring > Alerting

• Create Policy
  • Metric: large_video_upload_rate in search box and select logging/user/large_video_upload_rate

• Rolling window : 1 minute
  • next
    • Threshold : {value as supplied to you in task} in my case it 4 might be different for you please change it accordingly
  • use notification channel turn it off
  • Name your alert with large video uploads then Save

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