![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) # Observability and monitoring Documentation and resources for observability and monitoring across Google Cloud products and services. ## Explore observability and monitoring in Google Cloud Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about observability and monitoring products, capabilities, and procedures. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs) ### [Observability in Google Cloud](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs) Monitoring, logging, tracing, profiling, and debugging for observability. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus) ### [Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus) Collect Prometheus metrics for your workloads. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/opentelemetry/application-developers) ### [Observability for application developers](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/opentelemetry/application-developers) Collect telemetry from your applications with instrumentation. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/solutions/agents/ops-agent) ### [Google Cloud Observability overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/solutions/agents/ops-agent) Collect telemetry from your Compute Engine instances. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/logging/docs/overview) ### [Cloud Logging overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/logging/docs/overview) Collect and manage logs with storage, search, analysis, and monitoring support. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/monitoring-overview) ### [Cloud Monitoring overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/monitoring-overview) Learn about Cloud Monitoring, the integrated monitoring service for Google Cloud. [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/monitoring) ### [Monitoring and logging resources](https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/monitoring) Plan your approach with Architecture Center resources across a variety of monitoring and logging topics.[](https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/monitoring) [](https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/hybrid-and-multi-cloud-monitoring-and-logging-patterns) ### [Hybrid and multicloud monitoring and logging patterns](https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/hybrid-and-multi-cloud-monitoring-and-logging-patterns) Plan how to implmement monitoring and logging architectures for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.[](https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/hybrid-and-multi-cloud-monitoring-and-logging-patterns) ## Training, blog articles, and more Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources. [](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-cloud-trace-and-cloud-logging-for-root-cause-analysis) ### [Troubleshoot distributed applications](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-cloud-trace-and-cloud-logging-for-root-cause-analysis) View how to troubleshoot distributed applications by using Cloud Trace and Cloud Logging together.[](https://docs.cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-cloud-trace-and-cloud-logging-for-root-cause-analysis) [](https://medium.com/@asjad.nasir88/exploring-google-clouds-log-analytics-a-must-have-tool-for-cloud-security-professionals-2562675b3daa) ### [Explore log analytics: must-have tools for cloud security professionals](https://medium.com/@asjad.nasir88/exploring-google-clouds-log-analytics-a-must-have-tool-for-cloud-security-professionals-2562675b3daa) View how to access detailed logs of events and activities within your cloud environment.[](https://medium.com/@asjad.nasir88/exploring-google-clouds-log-analytics-a-must-have-tool-for-cloud-security-professionals-2562675b3daa) [](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/good-relevance-and-outcomes-for-alerting-and-monitoring) ### [Effective alerting in Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/good-relevance-and-outcomes-for-alerting-and-monitoring) View how the relevance of what we are monitoring can help us support triage in advance.[](https://docs.cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/good-relevance-and-outcomes-for-alerting-and-monitoring) [](https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-synthetic-monitoring-tutorial-ce502f81bb24) ### [Google Cloud synthetic monitoring tutorial](https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-synthetic-monitoring-tutorial-ce502f81bb24) View step by step instructions on how you can get started with Google Cloud synthetic monitoring.[](https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-synthetic-monitoring-tutorial-ce502f81bb24) [](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/gleaning-security-insights-from-audit-logs-with-log-analytics) ### [Gleaning security insights from Audit Logs with Log Analytics](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/gleaning-security-insights-from-audit-logs-with-log-analytics) View how Cloud Audit logs can help customers meet their compliance and security requirements.[](https://docs.cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/gleaning-security-insights-from-audit-logs-with-log-analytics) [](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/cloud-logging-cost-management-best-practices) ### [Four steps to managing your Cloud Logging costs on a budget](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/cloud-logging-cost-management-best-practices) View these best practices to learn how to get the most out of your Google Cloud and third-party logging tools.[](https://docs.cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/cloud-logging-cost-management-best-practices) [](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/864) ### [Observability in Google Cloud](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/864) Study how to use application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.[](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/864) [](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/20) ### [DevOps engineer and SRE learning path](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/20) Study how to implement efficient and reliable software delivery and infrastructure management.[](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/20) ## 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. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Google Cloud Observability](https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs) Monitor, log, trace, and profile your apps and services. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Cloud Logging](https://docs.cloud.google.com/logging/docs) Store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud and AWS. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Cloud Monitoring](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs) Analyze, monitor, and display the performance data collected from your applications and the Google Cloud services that you use. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Cloud Trace](https://docs.cloud.google.com/trace/docs) Find performance bottlenecks in production. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Error Reporting](https://docs.cloud.google.com/error-reporting/docs) Identify and understand application errors. ### Observability optimization Continuous profiling of production systems for large-scale operations. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/products/sql-color.svg) #### [Cloud Profiler](https://docs.cloud.google.com/profiler/docs) Continuously gather performance information using a low-impact CPU and heap profiling service. ### Related products, guides, and sites #### Guides and blog posts ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Observability for Google Kubernetes Engine](https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/observability) Understand the health of your applications and maintain application availability and reliability. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Virtual machine instances](https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/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](https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/observe-monitor-vms) Access and view virtual machine (VM) metrics. #### [Cloud Run functions overview](https://docs.cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/overview) Build and connect cloud services in a serverless execution environment. #### [Write Prometheus metrics from Cloud Run](https://docs.cloud.google.com/run/docs/monitoring-managed-prometheus-sidecar) Use the Prometheus sidecar to get Prometheus-style monitoring for Cloud Run services. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/developer-tools-color.svg) #### [Terraform](https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/terraform) Learn how to use Terraform to reliably provision infrastructure on Google Cloud. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/operations-color.svg) #### [App Hub](https://docs.cloud.google.com/app-hub/docs) Discover and organize infrastructure resources into applications. #### [Moving to Log Analytics for BigQuery export users](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/moving-to-log-analytics-for-bigquery-export-users) View a post for migrating from BigQuery log sink to Observability Analytics. #### [Creating custom notifications with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Run](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/operations/write-and-deploy-cloud-monitoring-alert-notifications-to-third-party-services) Learn how to deliver Cloud Monitoring alert notifications to third-party services that don't have supported notification channels. #### APIs and reference ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/operations-color.svg) #### [Google Cloud CLI logging](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/logging) Manage Cloud Logging. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/operations-color.svg) #### [Google Cloud CLI monitoring](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/monitoring) Manage Monitoring dashboards. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Monitoring APIs and reference](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/apis) View a list of the available monitoring APIs and reference content. ![](https://docs.cloud.google.com/_static/clouddocs/images/icons/categories/observability-color.svg) #### [Logging APIs and reference](https://docs.cloud.google.com/logging/docs/apis) View a list of the available logging APIs and reference content.