Cloud-native Application Management
Stackdriver delivers real time monitoring and logging across GCP and AWS, plus useful diagnostic tools. Manage your apps on GCP with our web-based console, mobile app, or Cloud Shell -- instant command line access through your browser. You can access all Google APIs, including GCP’s Billing API, through these interfaces. Use Deployment Manager templates to simplify your life. Use Cloud Endpoints to manage your APIs. Get started now with our cloud-native management tools.
Integrated monitoring, logging & diagnostics
Google Stackdriver provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster. It is natively integrated with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and popular open source packages. Stackdriver provides a wide variety of metrics, dashboards, alerting, log management, reporting, and tracing capabilities.
Full-Stack Monitoring, Powered by Google
Stackdriver Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. Stackdriver collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components including Cassandra, Nginx, Apache Web Server, Elasticsearch, and many others. Stackdriver ingests that data and generates insights via dashboards, charts, and alerts. Stackdriver alerting helps you collaborate by integrating with Slack, PagerDuty, HipChat, Campfire, and more.
Real-time Log Management and Analysis
Stackdriver Logging allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our API also allows ingestion of any custom log data from any source. Stackdriver Logging is a fully-managed service that performs at scale and can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs. Even better, you can analyze all that log data in real-time.
Real-time Exception Monitoring and Alerting
Stackdriver Error Reporting counts, analyzes and aggregates the crashes in your running cloud services. A centralized error management interface displays the results with sorting and filtering capabilities. A dedicated view shows the error details: time chart, occurrences, affected user count, first and last seen dates and a cleaned exception stack trace. Opt-in to receive email alerts on new errors.
Detailed Performance Insights
Stackdriver Trace is a distributed tracing system for Google Cloud Platform that collects latency data from your applications and displays it in the Google Cloud Platform Console. You can see detailed near real-time insights into application performance. Stackdriver Trace automatically analyzes all your application traces to generate in-depth performance reports to surface application performance degradations and call flow performance bottlenecks.
Detailed Performance Insights and Analytics
Stackdriver Debugger is a feature of the Google Cloud Platform that lets you inspect the state of an application at any code location without using logging statements and without stopping or slowing down your applications. Your users are not impacted during debugging. Using the production debugger you can capture the local variables and call stack and link it back to a specific line location in your source code. You can use this to analyze the production state of your application and understand the behavior of your code in production.
Simplify Your Cloud Management
Google Cloud Deployment Manager allows you to specify all the resources needed for your application in a declarative format using yaml. You can also use python or Jinja2 templates to parameterize the configuration and allow reuse of common deployment paradigms such as a load balanced, auto-scaled instance group. Treat your configuration as code and perform repeatable deployments.
Manage Your APIs
Develop, deploy, protect and monitor your APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints. An NGINX-based proxy and distributed architecture give unparalleled performance and scalability. Using an Open API Specification or one of our API frameworks, Cloud Endpoints gives you the tools you need for every phase of API development and provides insight with Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, and Stackdriver Logging.
Powerful Web Admin UI
Manage and get insights into everything that powers your cloud application -- including web applications, data analysis, virtual machines, datastore, databases, networking, and developer services. Google Cloud Console helps you deploy, scale and diagnose production issues in a simple web based interface. Search to quickly find resources and connect to instances via SSH in the browser. Handle devops workflows on the go with powerful native iOS and Android applications. Master the most complex development tasks with Google Cloud Shell, your admin machine in the cloud.
Your Google Curated Admin Machine
Google Cloud Shell provides you with command-line access to your cloud resources directly from your browser. You can easily manage your projects and resources without having to install the Google Cloud SDK or other tools on your system. With Cloud Shell, the Cloud SDK gcloud command and other utilities you need are always available, up to date and fully authenticated when you need them.
Cloud Platform in a Mobile App
The Google Cloud Console mobile app gives you a convenient way to discover, understand, and respond to production issues. Monitor and make changes to Cloud Platform resources from your iOS and Android device. Manage Cloud Platform resources such as projects, billing, Google App Engine apps, and Google Compute Engine VMs. Receive and respond to alerts helping you quickly address production-impacting issues.
Google Cloud Billing API Documentation
The Google Cloud Billing API provides methods that you can use to programmatically manage billing for your projects in the Google Cloud Platform.
Google Cloud APIs
Access Google Cloud Platform products from your code. Cloud APIs provide similar functionality as Cloud SDK and Cloud Console, and allow you to automate your workflows by using your favorite language. Use these Cloud APIs with REST calls or client libraries in popular programming languages.
MANAGEMENT TOOLS GUIDES AND RESOURCES
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Managing GCP with PowerShell
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