Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus (28771685) + Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances (28751651) + Trick-or-Metric Arcade (28771656) — Prometheus monitoring, AlloyDB cluster/primary/read-pool/backup 100/100 lab score in us-east1 (lab-cluster, lab-instance, lab-instance-rp1, lab-backup), and Halloween Arcade game.
Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
Trick-or-Metric • Google Skills Arcade
Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances
What Was Completed
Google Skills Arcade October 2026 — Trick-or-Metric plus two skill badges completed on Oct 9-10, 2026. Same VGC verification style as Arcade SRE Oct 8 triple badge.
| Module | Labs | Skills Covered |
|---|---|---|
| Managed Prometheus Monitoring | 1 Lab | Managed Service for Prometheus, Cloud Monitoring, GKE metrics, PromQL, alerting |
| AlloyDB Core Operations | 5 Tasks | Cluster lab-cluster, Instance lab-instance 2 vCPU 16GB us-east1, VM alloydb-client psql, DDL regions/countries/departments with PK, data load regions 4 countries 9 departments 6, Read Pool lab-instance-rp1 2 nodes, Backup lab-backup on-demand, 100/100 score |
| Trick-or-Metric Arcade | Game | Halloween Arcade Oct 2026, Trick-or-Metric pixel pumpkin theme, metric collection game |
Badge Details
1. Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus — 28771685
Level: Introductory — Infrastructure Modernization. Completed Oct 9, 2026. Covers Managed Service for Prometheus, collecting GKE metrics, Cloud Monitoring integration, PromQL queries. Part of monitoring track leading to Trick-or-Metric game.
2. Trick-or-Metric — 28771656
Game Badge — Oct 2026. Halloween Arcade game badge. Requires completion of monitoring skill badges. Completed Oct 10, 2026 with pumpkin arcade badge design.
3. Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances — 28751651
Level: Introductory — Data Management. Completed Oct 10, 2026 with 100/100 lab score. Cluster lab-cluster password Change3Me network peering-network region us-east1, primary instance lab-instance 2 vCPU 16GB, VM alloydb-client SSH psql -h $ALLOYDB -U postgres, CREATE TABLE regions (region_id bigint NOT NULL PK), countries (country_id char(2) NOT NULL PK), departments (department_id smallint NOT NULL PK), INSERT 4/9/6 rows, read-pool lab-instance-rp1 2 nodes, backup lab-backup.
Public Skills Profile: 94ed9c64-b219-4e43-8f23-b411eb4a37de
28771685: Monitor Environments
28751651: Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances
28771656: Trick-or-Metric
Developer: g.dev/idivet | Credly: antony-ancil
Updated Count: Digital 38 · British 2 · Safety 3 · Awards 7 · Education 3 = 53 — Oct 10, 2026
Verify All Certificates
All badges linked to public Google Skills profile with exact URLs — same verification style as Oct 8 SRE triple badge.
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