Cloud Operations - Other Services

In the last lesson, we had a detailed overview of the Cloud logging service of the GCP. There are also other services in the operations stack to identify and fix performance issues of the applications. These services are often overlooked by developers. But these can definitely help to solve some big issues with code.

Let’s have a look at those services one by one.

Trace

Latency is the biggest concern in the world microservices. You often hear about latency issues in APIs due to multiple network hops or bad code written in the backends.

Cloud Trace helps to trace the latency of an endpoint. By default, Cloud Trace tracks the App Engine endpoints and other system event-based endpoints. To include API endpoints for an application hosted on other compute services, an agent needs to be deployed on the specific service.

To access the trace dashboard, go to the main menu> Operations > Trace.

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