Google Cloud Management, Monitoring & Cost
Cloud Logging
Real-time log management and analysis at scale.
What it is used for
- Application logs
- Log-based alerts
- Troubleshooting
Equivalent on AWS
The closest AWS service is Amazon CloudWatch: monitoring and observability: metrics, logs, alarms and dashboards for AWS resources and apps.
How DomainHostly helps with Cloud Logging
- Plan: choose the right setup, size and region for your workload and budget.
- Set up securely: configure Cloud Logging with least-privilege access, encryption and backups where they apply.
- Migrate: move from shared hosting, your own servers or the other cloud with minimal downtime.
- Run and optimise: monitoring, updates and regular cost reviews so you only pay for what you use.
Management, Monitoring & Cost: Monitoring, logging, infrastructure as code, governance and cost management.
What to consider: Management, Monitoring & Cost
- Define infrastructure as code so environments can be rebuilt and reviewed.
- Set budgets and alerts in the first week; surprise bills are the most common cloud complaint.
- Monitor what customers feel (uptime, errors, latency), not only server metrics.
Related services: Management, Monitoring & Cost
- Cloud Monitoring (Google Cloud)
- Cloud Audit Logs (Google Cloud)
- Managed Service for Prometheus (Google Cloud)
- Infrastructure Manager (Terraform) (Google Cloud)
- VM Manager (Google Cloud)
- Cloud Asset Inventory (Google Cloud)
- Amazon CloudWatch (AWS)
- AWS CloudTrail (AWS)
- AWS CloudFormation (AWS)
- AWS CDK (AWS)