4Ensuring successful operation of a cloud solution

• 4.1Operating compute, storage, and networking

  Understand operational tasks: Compute Engine snapshots and images, GKE node pools and horizontal/vertical autoscaling, Cloud Run versions and traffic splitting, Cloud Storage object lifecycle management and database backup/restore, and subnet expansion, static IPs, Cloud DNS, and Cloud NAT.

• 4.2Monitoring and logging

  Understand operational observability: metrics, alerts, and custom metrics with Cloud Monitoring; viewing/filtering logs, log buckets and log routers, and external export with Cloud Logging; deploying the Ops Agent and Managed Service for Prometheus; and audit logs and checking Google Cloud status.