GCP Monitoring & Observability Skill

Instrument, observe, and alert on GCP workloads using Cloud Operations Suite.

Cloud Monitoring

Metrics

GCP has three types of metrics:

• System metrics — auto-collected from GCP resources (CPU, memory, latency, etc.)
• Agent metrics — from Ops Agent installed on VMs (process-level, custom system metrics)
• Custom metrics — emitted from your application code

# List available metric types
gcloud monitoring metrics-scopes list