In this recipe, we introduced Google Stackdriver. It is a built-in function of Google Kubernetes Engine. Stackdriver is a simple but powerful log management tool. In addition, Stackdriver is capable of monitoring the system status. You can make built-in or custom metrics to monitor and provide alerts regarding events as well. This will be described in the next recipe.

In addition, please read the following chapter to recap the basics of GCP and GKE:

• Chapter 7, Building Kubernetes on GCP