Monitor Google Cloud projects using auto-discovery

• How-to guide
• 6-min read
• Published Sep 25, 2023

Early Adopter

Starting from the Google Cloud Monitor integration version 1.3.0+, you can extend your metric coverage beyond the predefined set of services supported by extensions.

Possible auto-discovery scenarios depend on the services from which you want to monitor metrics:

Before you begin

This guide is a component of the main Dynatrace Google Cloud Metric and Log Integration setup, and focuses solely on auto-discovery configuration.

Minimum version

If Google Cloud integration has been previously set up using a version earlier than 1.3.0, you need to run a fresh deployment of the complete solution using version 1.3.0+.

Set up auto-discovery monitoring

Ensure permissions

If you are managing permissions manually, ensure the following permissions are added to the Dynatrace Google Cloud Metrics Monitor role.

Enable auto-discovery metric enrichment

To enable the auto-discovery metric enrichment, edit the following parameter in values.yaml:

metricAutodiscovery: "true"

Expand metrics for already supported services

Within the scope of standard supported services, a predetermined set of metrics is routinely sent to Dynatrace. For details on how to enable those services, see Choose services for metrics monitoring.

Auto-discovery mode, however, brings more flexibility by allowing the collection of all available metrics for a particular service.

Enable auto-discovery

To enable it, you need to modify the values.yaml file by searching for the specific service as follows:

- service: cloud_service_name
  allowAutodiscovery: True

Supported services

Expand the following table for a list of resources currently monitored by supported services that can be extended with auto-discovery.

Integrate any service based on resource name

For situations where the extended monitoring capabilities of supported services are insufficient, Google Cloud auto-discovery provides a solution to monitor any service offered by Google.

Limitations

Configure parameter values

The helm deployment package contains the autodiscovery-values.yaml file with the necessary configuration for this scenario. Edit this file to set the required and optional parameter values as follows.

Select resources

Specify the metrics to be sent to Dynatrace by listing the resource types of the monitored resources in the autodiscoveryResourcesYaml section. To identify the resources for monitoring within your project, see Google Cloud metrics.

Example:

autodiscoveryResourcesYaml: |
  autodicovery_config:
    searched_resources:
    - memcache_node

Disable selected metrics

To exclude specific metrics, list their prefixes in the autodiscoveryBlockListYaml section. Any matching metric will be excluded.

Example:

autodiscoveryBlockListYaml: |
  block_list:
  - memcache.googleapis.com/node/