Cloud Operations

Architecture

For an overview of how to design a state of the art multi-account security logging platform in GCP:

Cloud Operations¶

General Info

Cloud Operations Suite consists of multi-cloud monitoring and management products that aggregate metrics, logs, and events
A Workspace is the root entity that holds monitoring and configuration information
- A special project (the "Hosting" project) contains monitoring, configurations, dashboards, uptime checks, etc
- The Operations workspace acquires the name of the hosting account project.

Products

General Info

Enables to monitor platform/system/application metrics
Ingest data into Cloud Logging and you can create different metrics, custom events, monitor for specific metadata changes
Built-in monitoring for
- App Engine flexible
- App Engine Standard
- GKE
- Istio
Cloud Monitoring Agent
- For other services without Cloud Monitoring built in (e.g., GCE)

General Info