Troubleshooting with AI Using Cloud Assist Investigations

Overview

Cloud Assist Investigations is an AI-enabled tool for iterative troubleshooting in Google Cloud environments, and aims to help users troubleshoot common issues to find the root cause of problems that may occur when using Google Cloud services. This course equips DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers with the skills to effectively use Cloud Assist Investigations for streamlined troubleshooting of Google Cloud services. The training focuses on foundational knowledge of Cloud Assist Investigations, with the intent to reduce troubleshooting time and enhance overall operational efficiency for users of Google Cloud.

Syllabus

Introduction to Cloud Assist Investigations

Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations is a root-cause analysis (RCA) tool for troubleshooting your infrastructure and applications in complex and distributed cloud environments. This module introduces the features and functionality of Cloud Assist Investigations. It also briefly discusses Gemini Cloud Assist that Cloud Assist Investigations is part of.

Cloud Assist Investigations interface and core features

In this module, we discuss the core concepts and terminology used in Cloud Assist Investigations, and review the steps to create and use investigations in the Google Cloud console.

Conduct investigations and perform diagnostics

In this module, we review the details of an investigation including its observations and hypotheses, and diagnose an issue from the Logs Explorer entry point in the Google Cloud console.