Google Cloud Monitoring 101: Understanding metric types

Whether you are moving your applications to the cloud or modernizing them using Kubernetes, observing cloud-based workloads is more challenging than observing traditional deployments. When monitoring on-prem monoliths, operations teams had full visibility over the entire stack and full control over how/what telemetry data is collected (from infrastructure to platform to application data). In cloud-based applications, aggregating, integrating, and analyzing telemetry for full visibility is more complex because: Data originates from more sources: in addition to telemetry data from your applicati