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@@ -306,6 +306,16 @@ by deploying the [release manifest](./release) directly to an existing cluster.
    curl -v "http://$INGRESS_HOST"
    ```
 
+### (Optional) Enable Cloud Operations / Stackdriver
+
+Online Boutique is instrumented for [Google Cloud Operations](https://cloud.google.com/products/operations) tools including: Monitoring, Tracing, and Debugger. To enable some or all of these APIs in your Google Cloud Project, run the following commands before deploying the app to GKE:
+
+```
+gcloud services enable monitoring.googleapis.com \
+  cloudtrace.googleapis.com \
+  clouddebugger.googleapis.com
+```
+
 ### Cleanup
 
 If you've deployed the application with `skaffold run` command, you can run