gcloud-usage

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you quickly reason about Google Cloud Platform observability topics when you ask about Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring metrics, trace analysis, or debugging production issues on GCP. It provides structured guidance on logging, querying, alerting, and cost optimization to reduce the complexity of observability tasks.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured Logging: Use JSON logs and consistent field schemas to improve queryability.
• Log Filtering Queries: Craft Cloud Logging queries to find relevant events by severity, resource, time, and text.
• Metrics vs Logs vs Traces: Guidance on when to use metrics, logs, or traces to diagnose issues.
• Alert Policy Design: Create actionable alerts with multi-condition patterns and runbooks.
• Cost Optimization: Exclude verbose logs and apply sampling to manage ingestion costs.
• Debugging Workflow: Stepwise approach to start from metrics, then correlate with logs and traces.

Quick Start

Ask the assistant to analyze a GCP issue: for example, "Show the last 24 hours of ERROR-level Cloud Logging for service my-service and export the results to CSV." Then ask for guidance to create a runbook.