What is Google Cloud?

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services. It offers a wide range of infrastructure and platform services for building, deploying, and scaling applications and websites. Google Cloud provides a reliable and scalable infrastructure for hosting and running applications, storing and analyzing data, and leveraging machine learning capabilities.

Here are some key components and services offered by Google Cloud Platform:

Compute Engine : It offers virtual machines (VMs) running on Google's infrastructure, allowing users to deploy and manage applications.

App Engine : A platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to build and host web applications on Google's infrastructure without managing servers.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) : A managed Kubernetes service that simplifies the process of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.

Cloud Storage : Provides scalable object storage that allows users to store and retrieve data on Google Cloud infrastructure.

BigQuery : A serverless, highly scalable data warehouse that enables users to analyze large datasets using SQL queries.

Cloud Machine Learning Engine : Allows users to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale.

Cloud Pub/Sub : A messaging service that enables asynchronous communication between independent applications.

Cloud SQL : A fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set-up, maintain, manage and administer the relational MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases in the cloud.

Cloud Spanner : A globally distributed, strongly consistent, and the only enterprise-grade service that combines SQL queries, transactions, and relational structure.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) : Provides centralized access control for GCP resources, allowing administrators to manage permissions and security policies.

Networking : Offers a range of networking services including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN.

Why Monitor Google Cloud?

If any service instance is acting up - for eg., if a mission-critical application depending on a Filestore instance is not working due to lack of space contentions, or if a virtual machine is hogging resources, or if a specific storage bucket is running out of storage space, or if issues  are noticed in virtual machines etc., - administrators would want to rapidly zero-in on the problematic instances. From an administrator's standpoint, such service-level insights ease problem identification and consequently, troubleshooting. As a result, problems will be resolved quickly, thereby ensuring the high uptime and good health of critical cloud services.

Also, since resources are grouped per service account in the project, cloud service providers often prefer to track service usage, measure resource consumption, and compute usage costs of their customers at the individual level only. This simplifies billing and resource management. With per-subscription billing, cloud consumers too find it easier to monitor and manage their cloud spend. In short, for obtaining focused metrics on service health, resource usage and allocations, and overall service performance, which will help all the stakeholders of a cloud organization take effective performance / scaling / costing decisions, individual services should be monitored.

Overall, monitoring Google Cloud is critical for ensuring the performance, security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of your cloud infrastructure and services. By implementing robust monitoring practices and leveraging monitoring tools and services provided by Google Cloud Platform, you can effectively manage and optimize your cloud environment to meet your business needs and objectives. This can be easily achieved using a specialized monitoring model offered by eG Enterprise.