google-cloud-recipe-networking-observability

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps engineers and operators diagnose Google Cloud networking issues by correlating logs, metrics, and diagnostics across VPC Flow Logs, NAT, firewall, and threat logs to identify root causes quickly.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Analyze logs and metrics from Google Cloud to pinpoint connectivity issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Use for path diagnostics with Connectivity Tests to validate reachability and routing between endpoints.
• Reference best-practice workflows for NAT, firewall rules, and threat logs to resolve incidents faster.
• Example: quickly triage a NAT port exhaustion scenario by correlating NAT logs with flow metrics and firewall hits.

Quick Start

Select the relevant log source (VPC Flow Logs, NAT, firewall, or threat logs) and pull the top latency and drop indicators from the associated metrics to start the diagnosis.