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  • Cloud Monitoring overview
  • Metrics, time series, and resources
    • The metric model
    • Components of the metric model
    • Filtering and aggregation
    • Structure of time series
    • Metric kinds and value types
    • Percentiles and distribution metrics
    • Notes on terminology
    • List metric and resource types
    • Retention and latency of metric data
  • Data regionality
  • Protecting data at rest in Cloud Monitoring
  • Application Monitoring
    • Application Monitoring overview
    • Set up Observability for Application Monitoring
    • View application telemetry
    • Supported infrastructure
    • Instrument your application
  • Get started
  • Configure resource groups
  • Configure a multi-project view
    • Metrics scopes overview
    • Metrics scopes for app-enabled folders
    • (Console) Configure metrics scopes
    • (API) Configure metrics scopes
  • Quickstarts
    • Collect Apache metrics with the Ops Agent
    • Get notified if your app stops responding
    • View and customize Compute Engine VM dashboards
  • Collect metrics
  • Collect metrics overview
  • Install agents to collect metrics from VMs and 3P services
    • Agents overview
    • Ops Agent
      • Ops Agent overview
      • Install the Ops Agent
        • All installation methods
        • Install the Ops Agent during VM creation
        • Install the Ops Agent on a fleet of VMs using agent policies
          • Overview
          • Use agent policies (GA)
          • Use agent policies (beta)
        • Install the Ops Agent on a fleet of VMs using automation tools
        • Install the Ops Agent on individual VMs
      • Manage the Ops Agent
        • Authorize the Ops Agent
        • Configure the Ops Agent
        • Use log rotation for Ops Agent self logs
        • Manage VMs covered by the Ops Agent OS policy
      • Monitor third-party applications
        • Overview
        • Manage secrets in Ops Agent configuration
        • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
        • Aerospike
        • Apache ActiveMQ
        • Apache Cassandra
        • Apache CouchDB
        • Apache Flink
        • Apache Hadoop
        • Apache HBase
        • Apache Kafka
        • Apache Solr
        • Apache Tomcat
        • Apache Web Server (httpd)
        • Apache ZooKeeper
        • Couchbase
        • Elasticsearch
        • Hashicorp Vault
        • Internet Information Services
        • Jetty
        • JVM
        • MariaDB
        • Memcached
        • Microsoft SQL Server
        • MongoDB
        • MySQL
        • nginx
        • NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM)
        • Oracle Database
        • PostgreSQL
        • RabbitMQ
        • Redis
        • SAP HANA
        • Varnish HTTP Cache
        • WildFly
      • Collect Prometheus metrics
      • Collect OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) metrics and traces
    • Legacy Monitoring agent
      • Monitoring agent overview
      • Install the Monitoring agent
        • All installation methods
        • Install the Monitoring agent on a fleet of VMs using agent policies
        • Install the Monitoring agent on a fleet of VMs using automation tools
        • Install the Monitoring agent on individual VMs
      • Manage the Monitoring agent
        • Authorize the Monitoring agent
        • Configure the Monitoring agent
      • Monitor third-party applications
        • Overview
        • Apache
        • JVM monitoring
        • Memcached
        • MySQL
        • Nginx
        • Redis
        • StatsD
        • Transition deprecated integrations to BindPlane
      • User-defined metrics from the agent
    • Manage integrations
    • Monitor processes on VMs
  • Collect Prometheus metrics from GKE
  • Collect on-prem and hybrid-cloud metrics
    • Collect AWS CloudWatch metrics
    • Collect on-prem and hybrid-cloud metrics
  • Instrument your application
    • User-defined metrics overview
    • Add custom traces and metrics to your app with OpenTelemetry
    • Create user-defined metrics with the API
  • View and manage metric usage
  • Disable collection of metrics
  • Configure alerting policies and notifications
  • Alerting overview
  • Create alerting policies
    • (Console) Create metric-threshold alerting policies
    • (Console) Create metric-absence alerting policies
    • (Console) Create forecasted metric-value alerting policies
    • (API) Create alerting policies
    • (Terraform) Create alerting policies
    • (PromQL) Create alerting policies
    • Examples
      • Summary of example alerting policies
      • Monitor a resource group
      • Monitor VM process count
      • Monitor a microservice
      • Monitor your logs
      • Monitor quota metrics
      • Sample policies in JSON
      • Common alerting policies
  • Alerting policies in depth
    • Behavior of metric-based alerting policies
    • Annotate incidents with labels
    • Annotate alerts with user-defined documentation
  • Create and manage notification channels
    • (Console) Create and manage notification channels
    • (API) Create and manage notification channels
    • (Terraform) Create and manage notification channels
  • Manage incidents
    • Incidents for metric-based policies
    • Incidents for log-based policies
    • Incidents for SQL-based policies
  • Manage alerting policies
    • (Console) Manage alerting policies
    • (API) Manage alerting policies
    • (Terraform) Manage alerting policies
  • Snooze alerting policies
    • Snooze notifications and alerts
    • Create and manage snoozes
  • Manage alerting costs
  • Create a synthetic monitor
  • Synthetic monitoring overview
  • Create and manage uptime checks
    • Create uptime checks
      • Create public uptime checks
      • Create private uptime checks
      • Validate response data
      • List uptime-check server IP addresses
    • Create alerting policies for uptime checks
    • Chart uptime-check metrics
    • Manage uptime checks
  • Create and manage synthetic monitors
    • Create a synthetic monitor
      • Create a synthetic monitor
      • Create a broken-link checker
      • Samples for synthetic monitors
    • Explore synthetic monitor results
    • Manage synthetic monitors
  • View metrics
  • Create a chart
    • Create charts with Metrics Explorer
    • Select the metrics to chart
    • Set chart display options
    • Configure legends
  • Explore charted data
  • About distribution-valued metrics
  • About ratios of metrics
  • Retrieve time-series data
  • Create and view dashboards
  • Dashboards overview
  • View and customize Google Cloud dashboards
  • Work with dashboards
    • Install a dashboard template
    • Import Grafana dashboards into Cloud Monitoring
    • (Console) Create and manage dashboards
      • Create and manage dashboards
      • Add charts and tables
      • Display alerting policies and incidents
      • Display logs and errors