Reporting Application Metrics into Cloud Monitoring

In this lab you will run an application on Compute Engine instance and report the application’s metrics into Cloud Monitoring using the OpenCensus library.

• GSP111
• Overview
• What is OpenCensus?
• Setup and requirements
• Task 1. Create a Compute Engine instance
• Task 2. Install Go and OpenCensus on your instance
• Task 3. Create a basic application server in Go
• Task 4. Defining & recording measures using OpenCensus
• Task 5. Setting up metrics collection & aggregation
• Task 6. Reporting default metrics to Cloud Monitoring
• Task 7. View your application metrics in Cloud Monitoring
• Other methods for reporting application metrics to Cloud Monitoring
• Congratulations!