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Cloud Monitoring

Metrics, dashboards, SLOs and alerting.

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Overview

Cloud Monitoring tracks metrics with uptime checks, SLOs, alert policies and dashboards.

When to use it

  • Synthetic uptime tests
  • SLO burn-rate alerts
  • Canary verification

Setup

  1. Open Monitoring → create workspace.
  2. Add uptime checks, dashboards, alert policies.

How to use

Uptime check (gcloud)
gcloud monitoring uptime create checkout-flow --http-check-path=/health --resource-type=uptime-url --resource-labels=host=app.example.com

QA use cases

  • External synthetic checks on critical user journeys every minute.