Install the Google Cloud Platform Quickstart app

Install the Google Cloud Quickstart app to monitor and troubleshoot your Google Cloud infrastructure, including but not limited to:

  • Compute Engine

  • Kubernetes Engine

  • Cloud Memorystore

  • Cloud SQL

  • Bigquery

  • Cloud Run

Note

Although Observe allows you to control the amount of data consumed from GCP, the consumption of assets, logs, and metrics does incur costs. See Google Cloud’s Operations Suite Pricing for more information.

Install the Google Cloud Platform Quickstart app

Follow the instructions in Observe apps to find and install the Google Cloud Platform Quickstart app.

Create connections to Google Cloud Platform

After you install the app, open the app to create the connections from Observe to the Google Cloud Platform.

  1. Click Connections.

Connection for GCP integrations for Observe

Figure 24 - Creating the connection for GCP Integrations

2. Next to Onboard metrics for a GCP project, click Create Connection.

3. For the GCP Project ID, enter your Google Project ID.

4. For the Service Account Private Key JSON, enter the entire JSON string you either generated with Terraform, downloaded from the GCP Console.

Create Poller for GCP integrations with Observe

Figure 25 - Creating the poller for GCP Integrations

5. Next to Onboard data using a GCP Pub/Sub Subscription, click Create Connection.

6. For the GCP project ID, enter your Google Project ID.

7. For the Service Account Private Key JSON, enter the entire JSON string you either generated with Terraform or downloaded from the GCP Console.

8. For the GCP Pub/Sub Subscription, enter the Subscription Name you noted in the Terraform, or in the GCP Console setup.

Pub/Sub poller for Pub/Sub subscriptions for Observe

Figure 26 - Creating the poller for Pub/Sub subscriptions

9. Verify that Observe ingests the GCP data.

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Figure 27 - Verify the connections