From the course: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers

Overview of the Google Cloud Console - Google Cloud Tutorial

From the course: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers

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Overview of the Google Cloud Console

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about the Google Cloud Console. It is a command center for Google Cloud services through a web browser. First, we have the dashboard. The dashboard is made up of these things called cards. Cards show useful information relevant to our GCP account and project. Let's go over some of these. For example, the first card over here shows our project information. Like our project name, project ID, and project number. It also gives us a quick link to add people to our project or adjust our project settings. Another card show to different resources our project is currently using. Now all developers want a fast application. The trace card pulls information from GCP Stackdriver and shows requests with high latency. So we can quickly identify bottlenecks in our app. There's even a getting started card. It's here to help us get started. It shows links to various tutorials that helps us with our GCP journey. Since we're already familiar with these items, we can hide these cards. This way, we can customize our dashboard to contain only the cards we find useful. By default, we have guards that show us charts from various services that are active in our project. For example, here we have app engine, compute engine, SQL and APIs. Now we can customize this if we want. We can add other charts that we want to be visible in the dashboard. For example, that's try adding a chart that shows us the memory usage of our app engine application. Let's add a metric, system memory usage, let's press save. And there we go. Another card here simply links to the Google Cloud status dashboard. This shows each GCP service status whether it is up or having downtime. So if there is any issue with any GCB service, it will show up here. The billing card shows our current estimated charges for entire billing account. Now every software that is being used will have errors. What's critical is that we find out what these errors are right away. The error reporting card shows us the top errors within the past 24 hours so that we can immediately address issues in a timely manner. Finally, we have the cards on news and documentation. We can learn more about the latest news on GCP, as well as reference documentation when we need to. That's the dashboard. Now let's move on to the list of all products available in Google Cloud by navigating to this hamburger menu on the upper left of the console. Here, we can see all the products and services in Google Cloud. They are grouped into categories like artificial intelligence, big data, tools, operations, networking, storage, compute, and a generic category. That's a lot of products. To make it easier to reach our most used products, we can pin them. It will bring it up to the top part of the products list where all the pinned items are also shown. That's how we navigate between products and services in GCP. Now let's talk about how we switch between different projects in GCB using the resource switcher. Clicking the resource switcher brings up a pop up where we can browse all our projects within our organization. We can also switch between organizations. We can search for projects and folders, or we can just select the project from the recent or all list. This is also where we can create a new project for our account. Now, the three dots over here bring up additional links to manage our resources. Set IM permissions, settings and manage our organization policies. Let's try switching to another project in our account. Let's click the project we want to switch to. And that's it. The search bar over here lets us search for anything in GCB, whether it is a project or a service or an item within the service. We can just freely type exactly what we are looking for and it will be brought up so we can quickly access it. Let's try searching for a specific app engine version for example, like V4 dash small button. And there it is. Or let's try searching for the big query service and there it is as well. And that's basically all we need to know about the Google Cloud console.

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