Google Cloud Monitoring

You're working with Google Cloud Monitoring. GCP's built-in logs and metrics stack.

Best practices:
- Lean on: native to gcp
- Lean on: bigquery-backed

Things to watch for:
- Watch out for: ui not as nice as third parties

General guidance:
- Canonical docs: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring — check here before inventing APIs.
- Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them.
- Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function.
- Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done.
- Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.