Understanding the Cloud Console dashboard

Upon logging in, you'll be presented with the DASHBOARD view of your GCP project, as shown in the preceding screenshot. This provides a centralized, high-level view of the state of your project, as well as many convenient links to help get you started using Google Cloud, such as documentation, active issues and platform status, and general announcements and news. Sections are broken down into customizable widgets. By clicking the Customize button, you can tailor your experience by showing or hiding widgets, reordering widgets, and configuring graphs for certain resources such as Compute Engine VMs.

Along with the DASHBOARD view, a real-time stream of activity within your project is available in the ...

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