Cloud Monitoring Installation Guide150


Introduction

Cloud monitoring is a powerful tool that can help you keep track of your cloud resources and ensure that they are running smoothly. It can be used to monitor the performance of your applications, track resource usage, and troubleshoot issues.

Prerequisites

Before you can install cloud monitoring, you need to make sure that you have the following:
A Google Cloud Platform project
A Google Cloud Monitoring account
The gcloud command-line tool

Installation

To install cloud monitoring, follow these steps:
Enable the Google Cloud Monitoring API for your project:
```
gcloud services enable
```
Install the Cloud Monitoring agent on your host machines:
```
curl -sSO /cloudagents/
sudo bash
```
Start the Cloud Monitoring agent:
```
sudo service monitoring start
```
Check the status of the Cloud Monitoring agent:
```
sudo service monitoring status
```
Configure the Cloud Monitoring agent:
```
sudo nano /etc/cloud_monitoring/
```

In the configuration file, you can specify the following settings:
hostname - The hostname of the machine
include_disk_metrics - Whether or not to collect disk metrics
include_process_metrics - Whether or not to collect process metrics
interval - The interval at which to collect metrics (in seconds)
log_level - The log level for the agent (debug, info, warning, error, or fatal)
metric_buffer_size - The size of the metric buffer (in bytes)
metric_record_count - The number of metric records to buffer before sending them to the monitoring service
metric_send_delay - The delay between sending metric buffers to the monitoring service (in seconds)
monitoring_endpoint - The endpoint of the monitoring service to send metrics to
operations_endpoint - The endpoint of the operations service to send operations to
project_id - The ID of the Google Cloud Platform project to send metrics to
reschedule_delay - The delay between rescheduling failed tasks (in seconds)
resource_labels - A list of resource labels to apply to the exported metrics
use_http - Whether or not to use HTTP to send metrics (instead of gRPC)

Restart the Cloud Monitoring agent:
```
sudo service monitoring restart
```

Verification

Once you have installed and configured cloud monitoring, you can verify that it is working by running the following command:```
curl -sSO /cloudagents/
sudo bash
```

This command will output a list of the metrics that are being collected by the agent. You can also view the metrics in the Google Cloud Platform console.

Troubleshooting

If you are having trouble installing or configuring cloud monitoring, you can refer to the following troubleshooting guide:

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