I’ve been tinkering with ways to “unit-test” my assumptions when using cloud platforms. I recently wrote about good posts by Google describing achieving cost savings with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging:

• How to identify and reduce costs of your Google Cloud observability in Cloud Monitoring
• Cloud Logging pricing for Cloud Admins: How to approach it & save cost

With Cloud Monitoring, I’ve restricted the prometheus.googleapis.com metrics that are being ingested but realized I wanted to track the number of Pods (and Containers) deployed to a GKE cluster.