Ingest Google Cloud Monitoring Metrics
groundcover supports ingesting Google Cloud Monitoring Metrics directly into our platform, allowing you to visualize them using dashboards and create alerts.
Things to know
Ingestion interval
The integration pulls data from Google Cloud Monitoring every five minutes.
Data storage
Data fetched is stored in the Victoria Metrics database, meaning metrics are queried via the Google Cloud Monitoring API only one time per data point.
Supported services
groundcover supports ingestion of every GCP service listed in the GCP docs.
Setting up the integration
The following steps requires the details of dedicated service account set up the integration - marked below as <integrations-sa>.
Make sure it has been provided to you by the groundcover team
Create a Service Account and Assign Permissions
Go to IAM & Admin in GCP Console
Navigate to IAM & Admin → Service Accounts.
Create a New Service Account
Click on Create Service Account.
Provide a name and description for the service account.
Click Create & Continue.
In the Grant this service account access to the project step, search for and select Monitoring Viewer (
roles/monitoring.viewer).Click Continue → Done.
Grant service account impersonation access
Click on the newly created service account → Permissions → View by Principals → Grant Access
In the Add principals → New principal section enter the <integrations-sa> provided to you.
In the Assign roles → Role section choose Service Account Token Creator
Click Save
Share details with groundcover
Share the following details with the groundcover team to complete the integration:
The details of the service account created above
The list of services you wish to ingest metrics from
The region that hosts the account you wish to ingest metrics from
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