Jon Foust is back this week, joining Mark Mirchandani for an in-depth look at Stackdriver with fellow Googler, Rory Petty. To start, Product Manager Rory explains that Stackdriver is a full observability solution for Google Cloud (as well as other clouds). We touch on how monitoring, logging, and APM tools allow developers and operators to fully understand how a website is performing. In addition to Monitoring and Logging, the suite of Stackdriver tools also includes Debugger, Trace, and Profiler to help users not only monitor their sites, but to solve problems that occur.

Stackdriver Monitoring and Logging support Google Cloud services out of the box. Users can use Monitoring to set up alerts, so if something goes awry, they are notified immediately and can address the problem. Alerts can also be custom designed to inform developers of things like number of checkouts on your e-commerce site, the amount of time between checkouts, and more. Stackdriver Monitoring allows blackbox monitoring, too, to make sure your service is healthy. The Monitoring dashboard makes it really easy to get started, with a resources section that has pre-made dashboards for developers to use. Developers don’t have to do a lot of configuration out of the box. However, if you need a more customized dashboard, that is also possible in Stackdriver Monitoring.

At Cloud Next earlier this year, Stackdriver announced Service Monitoring in alpha, which shows users a map of their microservices architecture. Public beta will hopefully be later this year. Stackdriver Sandbox, another recent project currently in the alpha stage, gives people an easy way to configure a test Stackdriver environment. This way, developers can play with Stackdriver tools without effecting their websites. Stackdriver Profiler, a great tool to understand the performance of your system, went GA at Cloud Next as well.

Stackdriver’s tools are all meant to work together to help you maintain and perfect development projects on many different cloud services and on-prem.



Rory Petty

Rory Petty is Product Manager for the Stackdriver Monitoring Platform. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and is a vinyl record enthusiast. Rory is a midwest transplant living in Brooklyn.

Cool things of the week


Commute just got easier with Google Pay and Google Assistant blog
5 year anniversary of Kubernetes and KubeCon content videos


Kubernetes Podcast podcast

Early Preview of AR in Google Maps video


Interview


Stackdriver site
Stackdriver with Kubernetes video
Stackdriver Monitoring site
Stackdriver Logging site
Stackdriver Debugger site
Stackdriver Trace site
Stackdriver Profiler site
App Engine site
Compute Engine site
GKE site
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Book site
Istio site
Stackdriver Service Monitoring site
Stackdriver Sandbox site
Cloud Next ‘19 DevOps & SRE Sessions videos
Cloud On Air site
Stack Doctor Playlist videos
Implementing GCP Stackdriver and Adapting SRE Practices to Samsung’s AI System video
Stackdriver Documentation site


Question of the week

How do I decide between Apps Script and App Maker?

Where can you find us next?

Jon is going to Games for Change.

Mark is going to be in NYC right before Games for Change.

Sound Effect Attribution


“Spaceship Fly-by, A” by InspectorJ of Freesound.org
“Teleport” by Sergenious of Freesound.org
“Moretube.wav” by NoiseCollector of Freesound.org
“Mystery Peak2.wav” by FoolBoyMedia of Freesound.org