Introduction Google Cloud Platform does not provide a direct equivalent to AWS's HealthyHostCount metric. While AWS offers a built-in metric showing how many targets in a target group are passing health checks, GCP's approach is fragmented across different load balancer types and backend configurations. The closest

Managing Docker storage efficiently is becoming more important as cloud-native workloads scale and disk usage grows rapidly. Teams running Docker on cloud VMs often hit a common bottleneck: the root disk fills up quickly with images, containers, logs, and volumes. While Docker defaults to storing everything under /var/lib/docker,

When you run several internal applications inside an Amazon EKS cluster, there often comes a point when you need one stable entry point for all your workloads. Instead of exposing every service individually, you can route traffic through one internal Network Load Balancer (NLB) and manage everything from Kubernetes. This

Introduction Managing AWS costs effectively requires continuous monitoring and timely alerts. Unexpected cost spikes can impact budgets significantly, making automated cost notifications essential for proactive cost management. This guide shows you how to build an automated cost notification system using AWS Lambda that sends daily reports via email, Slack, or

Introduction Google Cloud Managed Prometheus (GMP) lets you store and query Prometheus metrics in Google Cloud Monitoring without running your own Prometheus servers. If you want a familiar Prometheus-style experience in Grafana, you can run the Prometheus query frontend container locally and point Grafana’s Prometheus data source at it.

Why adding IAM roles isn’t always enough If you’ve ever granted a service account a role in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) but your VM still can’t access a resource — you’re not alone. This is one of those “GCP gotchas” that almost every cloud engineer faces at