Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Stackdriver incidents

When the conditions of an alerting policy are met, Stackdriver will create a new incident for the given policy violation. Incidents provide a convenient way to track policy violations, including which violations are currently active, the frequency and state of violations, incident durations, and team comments. We can use this information to coordinate efforts and track performance over time.

Let's go ahead and try triggering our alert now. As mentioned in the Preparation for this chapter section at the beginning of the chapter, the todos-frontend service includes a utility to simulate traffic on our App Engine applications. Simply update the config.target field in package.json to point to your todos-frontend service. ...