Month 10: Cloud Monitoring and Logging

Week 1: Introduction to Monitoring Concepts and Best Practices

Day 1: Importance of cloud monitoring and its role in application performance management

Day 2: Key cloud monitoring concepts: metrics, logs, and traces

Day 3: Monitoring best practices: granularity, frequency, and retention

Day 4: Proactive vs. reactive monitoring

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Setting up a basic monitoring dashboard

Week 2: Monitoring Services – AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Stackdriver

Day 1: Introduction to AWS CloudWatch

Day 2: Hands-on activity: Setting up AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and logging

Day 3: Introduction to Azure Monitor

Day 4: Hands-on activity: Setting up Azure Monitor for monitoring and logging

Day 5: Introduction to GCP Stackdriver (now called Google Cloud Operations)

Day 6: Hands-on activity: Setting up GCP Stackdriver for monitoring and logging

Week 3: Logging Services – AWS CloudTrail, Azure Log Analytics, GCP Logging

Day 1: Introduction to AWS CloudTrail

Day 2: Hands-on activity: Setting up AWS CloudTrail for audit logging

Day 3: Introduction to Azure Log Analytics

Day 4: Hands-on activity: Setting up Azure Log Analytics for log analysis

Day 5: Introduction to GCP Logging

Day 6: Hands-on activity: Setting up GCP Logging for log analysis

Week 4: Alerting and Incident Management

Day 1: Importance of alerting in cloud monitoring

Day 2: Alerting best practices: thresholds, escalation policies, and alert suppression

Day 3: Hands-on activity: Setting up alert rules in AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and GCP Stackdriver

Day 4: Incident management: understanding and responding to incidents

Day 5: Integration of monitoring and alerting with incident management tools