Day-to-Day Operations
This page covers the routine tasks a mentor performs during an active season:
Backups
A CodeRunner backup captures the only state that cannot be regenerated: the
Monitoring
Control-plane logs
Capacity and Sizing
Per-student resource usage
Seasonal Teardown
This page covers how to take the Google Cloud VM deployment down to near-zero
Troubleshooting
Container won't start
Grafana Cloud (Optional)
Grafana Cloud is an optional observability add-on for the cloud VM deployment. The control plane exposes a standard Prometheus metrics endpoint and writes structured JSON logs; this page describes how to wire those up to Grafana Cloud using Grafana Alloy so you can query metrics and logs from anywhere. Nothing in the application itself depends on Grafana Cloud, so this setup is entirely skippable.