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  • Application Monitoring
    • Application Monitoring overview
    • Set up Observability for Application Monitoring
    • View application telemetry
    • Supported infrastructure
    • Instrument your application
  • SLO monitoring
    • Concepts in service monitoring
    • Microservices
      • Overview
      • Viewing your microservices
      • Defining a microservice
      • Using microservice dashboards
    • Creating an SLO
    • Using SLO-based alerts
      • Alerting on your burn rate
      • Creating an alerting policy (console)
      • Creating an alerting policy (API)
    • Working with the SLO API
      • Constructs in the API
      • Working with the API
      • Creating a service-level indicator
      • Retrieving SLO data
    • Creating SLIs from metrics
      • Overview
      • Using Load Balancing metrics
      • Using platform and service metrics
        • Introduction
        • Request-response services
        • Data storage and retrieval services
        • Data processing services
      • Using logs-based metrics
      • Using Prometheus metrics
  • Observability for GKE
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  • Instrument your applications
  • Overview
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    • Sample overview
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  • Advanced Topics
    • Add custom metrics and traces
    • Correlate metrics and traces using exemplars
    • Migrate from Trace exporter to OTLP
  • Instrument AI applications
    • Overview
    • LangGraph framework example
    • Agent Development Kit framework example
  • Collect telemetry
  • Use the Google-Built OpenTelemetry Collector
    • Overview
    • Deploy the Collector on GKE
    • Deploy the Collector on Container-Optimized VMs
    • Deploy the Collector on Cloud Run
    • Manage secrets in Collector configuration
  • Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
    • Overview
    • Set up Prometheus metric collection
      • Get started with managed collection
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      • Get started with the OpenTelemetry Collector
      • Get started with the Ops Agent for Compute Engine
      • Get started with Prometheus metrics in Cloud Run
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    • Set up PromQL querying
      • Query using Cloud Monitoring
      • Query using Grafana
      • Query using the Prometheus API or UI
      • Using PromQL for Cloud Monitoring metrics
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      • PromQL compatibility
    • Set up rule evaluation and alerting
      • Create PromQL alerts in Cloud Monitoring
      • Managed rule evaluation and alerting
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    • Set up commonly used exporters
      • Introduction
      • Application exporters
        • Aerospike
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      • Infrastructure exporters
        • cAdvisor/Kubelet
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        • Hubble (GKE Dataplane V2)
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        • Node Exporter
        • NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM)
        • Prometheus (self-monitoring)
      • Application servers
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    • Use Prometheus exemplars
    • Set up horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA)
    • Cost controls and attribution
    • Troubleshooting
    • Best practices and reference diagrams
      • Ingestion and querying with managed and self-deployed collection
      • Configuring your metrics scopes
      • Multi-tenant monitoring and querying
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      • Unusual configurations
    • Reference
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  • Google Cloud Observability agents
    • Manage agents on VMs
    • 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
      • Troubleshoot the Ops Agent
        • Overview
        • Find troubleshooting information
        • Troubleshoot credentials
        • Troubleshoot installation and start-up
        • Troubleshoot data ingestion
      • Monitor and collect logs from third-party applications
        • Overview
        • Manage secrets in Ops Agent metrics configuration
        • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
        • Aerospike
        • Apache ActiveMQ
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        • Apache Kafka
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        • Elasticsearch
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        • Internet Information Services
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        • MongoDB
        • MySQL
        • nginx
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        • Varnish HTTP Cache
        • WildFly
      • Collect Prometheus metrics
      • Collect OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) metrics and traces
      • Transition to the GA version of the Ops Agent
    • Legacy monitoring and logging agents
      • 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
          • Troubleshoot 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
      • Legacy Logging agent
        • Logging agent overview
        • Install the Logging agent
          • All installation methods
          • Install the Logging agent on a fleet of VMs using agent policies
          • Install the Logging agent on a fleet of VMs using automation tools
          • Install the Logging agent on individual VMs
        • Manage the Logging agent
          • Authorize the Logging agent
          • Configure the Logging agent
          • Default agent logs
          • Troubleshoot the Logging agent
  • Microservices observability
    • Overview
    • Set up observability