Duplicate a Site Reliability guardian

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  • Published Apr 16, 2026

Simplify your configuration reuse, save time, and avoid mistakes when manually copying configuration settings by duplicating your existing guardian.

Prerequisites

Permissions

The following table describes the required permissions.

app-settings:objects:read
Read guardian configurations
app-settings:objects:write
Write guardian configurations
storage:buckets:read
Enables reading all system data stored in Grail
storage:logs:read
Read logs during validations
storage:metrics:read
Read metrics during validations
storage:bizevents:read
Read business events during validations
storage:events:write
Write business events during validations
storage:events:read
Read events during validations
storage:spans:read
Read spans during validations
storage:entities:read
Read entities during validations

Duplicate a guardian

To duplicate an existing guardian:

  1. Go to Site Reliability Guardian Site Reliability Guardian.

  2. In the Grid view, hover over the guardian for duplication. In the Table view, select the More actions ellipse next to the title.

  3. Select Duplicate.

  4. Change the name of the guardian.

  5. Select Save.

Now, you have an identical copy of an original guardian with the same configuration, except for the title.

Next steps

Add an objective for measuring your services such as performance, availability, and security.

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