Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services – Module Quiz 4

1. What is the foundational process at the base of Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) ?
Monitoring. : Before you can take any of the other actions, you must first be monitoring the system.

2. What is the purpose of the Stackdriver Trace service?
Reporting on latency as part of managing performance. : Stackdriver Trace provides latency sampling and reporting for Google App Engine, Google HTTP(S) load balancers, and applications instrumented with the Stackdriver Trace SDKs. Reporting includes per-URL statistics and latency distributions.

3. Stackdriver integrates several technologies, including monitoring, logging, error reporting, and debugging that are commonly implemented in other environments as separate solutions using separate products. What are key benefits of integration of these services?
Reduces overhead, reduces noise, streamlines use, and fixes problems faster : Stackdriver integration streamlines and unifies these traditionally independent services, making it much easier to establish procedures around them and to use them in continuous ways.