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Google Cloud Platform will be the next major cloud admin skill in the coming years. Google is increasing its market reach in the cloud provider domain using strategic partnerships and a lot of funding for the customers. So, no doubt that GCP is going to dominate the cloud domain in the coming years.

This course is a headstart to quickly get hands-on with GCP and make yourself comfortable with it. You will start with "Why GCP?" and will go all the way to using its services in different ways. If you are from an AWS background, you will find the course very easy to understand due to similarities between AWS and GCP services.

At the end of the course, you will take a practice exam that will resemble the exam you’ll take when you go to get your Google Cloud Engineer Certification. Good luck!

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This lesson is an introductory lesson for Stackdriver. We have some in-depth lessons for Stackdriver in upcoming sections.

> Google is known for acquiring businesses and integrating their services with their services. Stackdriver is one of these. It started in 2012-13, and Google acquired Stackdirver in 2014.

After 2020, Stackdriver was renamed to **Cloud Operations.**
As this is an introductory lesson, we will cover the uses of Stackdriver and all its offerings.

So, let’s explore Stackdriver.



# Monitoring


The first part of cloud operations is **Monitoring** to monitor resources from one or more projects. A workspace is a tool for monitoring resources in one or more Google Cloud projects or AWS accounts. Yes, Stackdirver can also monitor AWS accounts using an AWS connector.
Let's go through the sub menus of Monitoring.

To Open, go to **Main menu > Observability > Monitoring**


## Workspaces

The **monitoring workspace** is a one-stop solution to all monitoring requirements. A workspace, by default, monitors the host project (known as a scoping project), and the workspace's name is automatically set to the host project.

There are two types of projects in the workspace.

1. **Host project/Scoping Project:** This stores all the Stackdirver Workspace's metadata.


2. **Monitored project:** One or more workspaces can monitor a Google Cloud project or AWS account. A workspace constantly monitors its Google Cloud host project. However, you can configure a workspace to monitor **up to one hundred Google Cloud projects and AWS accounts** alongside the host project.




Even though every project can have its monitoring workspace, having a separate monitoring workspace project makes it easy to have the entire monitoring workload in one place.




## Dashboard

The dashboard is a combination of charts that shows metrics based on resource type and filters you choose. There are mainly four types of dashboards in GCP.

1. **Created by GCP**: Google cloud creates default dashboards for the services you have made. The type of these dashboards is **Google Cloud Platform**. Any user cannot delete these dashboards.

2. **Custom**: Dashboard created by a user. If default dashboards do not serve the purpose, we can create custom dashboards.

3. **Application**: When third-party services are installed on GCP resources, this dashboard provides detailed information about that service.

4. **Amazon Web Services**: This dashboard monitors products provided by Amazon. 


You can create different dashboards to monitor other services. Currently, there will be one monitoring dashboard for Cloud Storage; this will show stats about the buckets we created earlier. You can monitor all the resource-specific attributes like requests, network traffic, number of objects, etc.

For example, you want to monitor the CPU utilization of all the compute instances using a dashboard.

Then, create a dashboard with a specific name denoting its purpose. Click “add charts,” then select the resource types and other filters based on your requirements.




In this lesson, we will discuss provisioning Stackdriver workspaces.

Introduction

Creating Projects and IAM

Billing Management

Google Cloud CLI

Compute Service Offerings

Storage

Network Resources

Cost Estimation

Event Driven Services

Monitoring and logging

Miscellaneous Services

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Stackdriver Workspaces (Cloud Operations)

Monitoring

Workspaces