GKE Monitoring and Observability

Purpose

Implement comprehensive observability for GKE applications. This skill covers logging, metrics collection, visualization, distributed tracing, and alerting strategies for Spring Boot microservices.

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to:

• Set up Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring for GKE applications
• Instrument Spring Boot applications with Actuator metrics
• Configure Prometheus scraping for custom metrics
• Create dashboards to visualize application performance
• Set up alerts for error rates, resource usage, or SLOs
• Enable distributed tracing with Cloud Trace
• Debug production issues using logs and metrics

Trigger phrases: "set up monitoring", "GKE observability", "configure Prometheus", "create dashboard", "set up alerts", "enable tracing"