Migrate to Google Cloud integration version 1.0

  • How-to guide
  • 5-min read
  • Published Jan 17, 2022

Dynatrace version 1.230+

The new version of the Google Cloud integration (v.1.0) uses Extensions 2.0 and introduces custom topology for a number of Google Cloud services.

  • Google Compute Engine
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Google Cloud Functions
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Google App Engine
  • Google Cloud Tasks
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Cloud Datastore
  • Google Load Balancing
  • Google Cloud NAT Gateway
  • Google Filestore
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Google Pub/Sub
  • Google Pub/Sub Lite
  • Google Memorystore
  • Google Spanner

Note that your existing metric dimension names will change when you switch to Google Cloud integration using Dynatrace Extensions 2.0. Dimension name changes affect all configured managements zones, custom alerts, and custom dashboards in your environment. To restore proper functionality for these entities, please follow the instructions below.

Upgrading existing dynatrace-gcp-monitor installations from earlier versions is not supported. You need to first delete your existing deployment and then install the Google Cloud integration v.1.0. For instructions, see below.

Step 1

Delete existing deployment

Step 2

Remove dashboards and/or alerts

Step 3

Install new Google Cloud deployment

Step 4

Update dimensions

Step 1 Delete existing deployment

  1. Find out what release version you're using.

    helm ls -n dynatrace

  2. Uninstall the release.

    Be sure to replace <release-name> with the release name from the previous output.

    helm uninstall <release-name> -n dynatrace

Step 2 Remove dashboards and/or alerts

You need to manually remove any dashboards or alerts created manually during the previous installation.

Step 3 Install new Google Cloud deployment

To install the new Google Cloud deployment, see Set up the Dynatrace Google Cloud metric and log integration (v.1.0) on a new GKE Autopilot cluster.

Step 4 Update dimensions

If you created your own dashboards, alerts, or management zones based on Google Cloud metrics, you need to manually update the dimensions according to the list below in order to get links for entities.

Old dimension nameNew dimension name
project_idgcp.project.id
regiongcp.region
zonegcp.region
instance_idgcp.instance.id
autoscaler_idgcp.instance.id
model_idgcp.instance.id
queue_idgcp.instance.id
device_registry_idgcp.instance.id
job_idgcp.instance.id
version_idgcp.instance.id
database_idgcp.instance.id
volume_idgcp.instance.id
router_idgcp.instance.id
instance_group_idgcp.instance.id
interconnectgcp.instance.id
attachmentgcp.instance.id
volume_idgcp.instance.id
snapshot_idgcp.instance.id
subscription_idgcp.instance.id
topic_idgcp.instance.id
key_idgcp.instance.id
worker_idgcp.instance.id
agent_idgcp.instance.id
gateway_idgcp.instance.id
namegcp.instance.name
autoscaler_namegcp.instance.name
environment_namegcp.instance.name
cluster_name gcp.instance.namegcp.instance.name
function_name gcp.instance.namegcp.instance.name
revision_namegcp.instance.name
job_namegcp.instance.name
instance_namegcp.instance.name
domain_namegcp.instance.name
table_namegcp.instance.name
firewall_namegcp.instance.name
bucket_namegcp.instance.name
container_namegcp.instance.name
url_map_namegcp.instance.name
instance_group_namegcp.instance.name
load_balancer_namegcp.instance.name
canonical_service_namegcp.instance.name
node_namegcp.instance.name
pod_namegcp.instance.name
broker_namegcp.instance.name
revision_namegcp.instance.name
trigger_namegcp.instance.name
fqdngcp.instance.name
target_domain_namegcp.instance.name
gateway_namegcp.instance.name
policy_namegcp.instance.name
proxy_namegcp.instance.name
load_balancer_namegcp.instance.name
backend_target_namegcp.instance.name
connector_namegcp.instance.name
gateway_namegcp.instance.name
  • To update dimensions for dashboards
    1. Go to Dashboards or Dashboards Classic.
    2. Select the dashboard for which you want to update dimensions, and then select More (…) > Configure.
    3. Select Dashboard JSON.
    4. In the "splitBy" section, replace the old dimensions with the new values as determined from the list of dimension changes.
    5. Select Save changes.

Alternatively, you can replace the dimensions by configuring each dashboard tile of a selected dashboard in Data Explorer.

  • To update dimensions for alerts

    1. Go to Settings.
    2. Select Anomaly detection > Metric events.
    3. Select the event for which you want to update dimensions.
    4. In the Add dimension filter field, select the new dimension keys and enter the corresponding dimension values as determined from the list of dimension changes.
    5. Select Save changes.

  • To update dimensions for management zones

    1. Go to Settings.
    2. Select Preferences > Management zones.
    3. Select Edit for the management zone for which you want to update dimensions.
    4. Select Edit to edit an existing rule.
    5. In Conditions, edit the DIMENSION value according to the List of dimension changes.
    6. Select Save changes.
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