Alerting in Google Cloud is different from other platforms. Alert policies define conditions that trigger incidents which are confusingly also referenced as alerts. The incidents are tracked in Cloud Console. In addition, an alert policy can be configured to send notification via one or more notification channels. Using notification channels…

“So, what is in my name to you?” (A. Pushkin) This post is a part of the How Cloud Logging works series. There are many things about Cloud Logging that users aren’t aware of until they meet an unexpected behavior or need to implement a specific use case. …

Disclaimer: The ideas reflected in this post do not necessarily reflect the opinions, attitudes, and statements of my employer or anyone associated with me. Observability (O11y) is never perceived as an overloaded term. Everyone knows what O11y means. The most often definitions describe it as “An ability to infer internal…

Actionable events is a very useful tool when operating production systems. A common example of the usage is an ability to restart VM instances which CPU utilization reach 99% for longer than a minute. Depending on the infrastructure or a cloud provider, events can be implemented as some kind of…

This is a non-technical post about my personal experience of moving my center of life across an ocean. Disclaimer: Information in this post is from my personal experience which can be different from yours. If you decide to use this information in your relocation decisions, make it at your own…

Google Cloud Functions is a serverless execution environment letting users to run their code in 7 different languages with multiple versions of the language runtimes. It is flexible, scalable, reliable and can be used for a variety of tasks including running production workflow steps, DevOps and Operation tasks, security validations…

Let me tell you a short story. Once upon a time I had to replace the outdated OpenCensus (OC) tracing demo with a new OpenTelemetry (OT) instrumentation demo application. If you don’t know what OC or OT, you can stop reading. The story will not be very interesting for you. …

What happens when you want to write a test that requires an instance of the http.Request structure? You create one. req := http.Request { URL: "https://example.com/test", Header: http.Header{"my-header": {"some value"}}, } Then what you expect to happen if your test will execute the code that tries to read the header…

Google Cloud provides a set of useful logging agents that run on almost all Google Cloud resources (a.k.a. services). You can install one out of the two logging agents on their virtual machines. The first is the recently released Ops agent that includes logging and monitoring capabilities but can be…