At Google Cloud, we strive to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture to our customers not only through training on organizational best practices, but also with the tools you need to run successful cloud services. Part and parcel of that is comprehensive observability tooling—logging, monitoring, tracing, profiling and debugging—which can help you troubleshoot production issues faster, increase release velocity and improve service reliability.

We often hear that implementing observability is hard, especially for complex distributed applications that are implemented in different programming languages, deployed in a variety of environments, that have different operational costs, and many other factors. As a result, when migrating and modernizing workloads onto Google Cloud, observability is often an afterthought.

Nevertheless, being able to debug the system and gain insights into the system’s behavior is important for running reliable production systems. Customers want to learn how to instrument services for observability and implement SRE best practices using tools Google Cloud has to offer, but without risking production environments. With Cloud Operations Sandbox, you can learn in practice how to kickstart your observability journey and answer the question, “Will it work for my use-case?”

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