Using the Cloud Ops Agent in Google Compute Engine Instances

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Google Compute Engine (GCE) is one of the leading cloud computing platforms that offers shttps://cloud.google.com/compute. Fear not, though, the wonderful folks at Google Cloud have a solution for you – the Cloud Ops Agent! The Cloud Ops Agent is a tool that provides a centralized and unified solution for collecting, processing, and analyzing logs and metrics from your GCE instances.

How to install the Cloud Ops Agent using the Google Cloud Console: For this, there are two approaches.

Now that the agent is installed and collecting logs and metrics, the data can be sent to a centralized location such as Google Cloud Logging, Stackdriver Monitoring, or a third-party logging and monitoring tool.

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