APIs are great tools since they provide developers a simplified way to consume data and functionality that resides in backend systems. However, they are targets for malicious attacks because they contain business-critical information. In this video, we demo how Google Cloud can help you better secure your APIs with Apigee and Cloud Armor. Watch to learn how these tools offer security at multiple levels for your APIs!

Want to visualize your monitoring data like never before? In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to use the new Dashboard Editor to easily visualize your Cloud Monitoring data. Specifically, we’ll show you how to create a dashboard using gauges, scorecards, and text widgets and how you can utilize the new layouts and chart configuration modes to closely monitor the health of your services!

Welcome to the Google Cloud Video Learning Series, where we show you how to use Google Cloud services. In this episode, we’ll show you how to export logs from Google Cloud Logging to BigQuery. Customers often export logs to BigQuery to run analytics against the metrics extracted from the logs. BigQuery can help identify unauthorized changes in configuration and inappropriate access to data, thus meeting your organization’s security and analytics requirements.

Cloud SQL Insights helps you detect, diagnose, and prevent query performance problems for Cloud SQL databases. With Insights, you can monitor performance at an application level and trace the source of a problematic query across the application stack by model, view, controller, route, user, and host. In this video, we introduce you to Cloud SQL Insights and demo how you can use it for self-service, intuitive monitoring and troubleshooting.

Tune in every week for a new episode and let us know what you think of the latest announcements in the comments below! Product: Apigee, Google Cloud VMs; fullname: Stephanie Wong;

Formerly known as Stackdriver, Google Cloud Operations Suite is a platform where you can monitor, troubleshoot, and improve application performance on your Google Cloud environment. In this episode of Google Cloud Drawing Board, we show you what Google Cloud Operations Suite is and how you can use it to gain greater observability over your applications.

We try to automate as much as possible in our environments, but we often treat monitoring as an afterthought. In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to automate your monitoring configurations via Terraform. Watch to learn how you can automate the creation of common resources - such as uptime checks, alerting policies, and dashboards - with Terraform!

Want to make sure that your cloud services are free from any vulnerabilities, threats, or errors that can make it unreliable? In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you the new features in Google Cloud Logging, teach you how to navigate the new and improved Logs Viewer and build log queries, and give you an in-depth analysis of the Log Router. Watch to learn what’s new with Cloud Logging!

Google Cloud offers many tools that can help you manage your application services. In this video, we teach you how to set up and utilize Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler, and Cloud Debugger to collect latency data across different services, memory-allocation information, and inspect application code locations without compromising the performance of your web application.

Want to know how to utilize Cloud Monitoring in Cloud Console? In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how to set up a simple web service and instrument it for both service health and infrastructure monitoring. Watch to learn how you can navigate Cloud Monitoring’s new integration into Cloud Console and gain better observability of your applications and infrastructure.