Google Cloud Spanner monitoring

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

Dynatrace Google Cloud integration leverages data collected from the Google Operation API to constantly monitor health and performance of Google Cloud Services. While combining all relevant data into dashboards, it also enables alerting and event tracking.

Prerequisites

Set up integration

Add services and feature sets optional

After integration, Dynatrace automatically monitors a number of preset Google Cloud services and feature sets (metrics). Besides these, you can add more services or feature sets to monitoring. For details, see Add or remove services.

For a list of feature sets available for this service, see Metric table.

View metrics

After deploying the integration, you can see metrics from monitored services in the Metrics browser, Data Explorer, and your dashboard tiles.

Metric table

The following feature sets are available for Google Cloud Spanner.

Feature setNameUnitGCP metric identifier
spanner_instance/default_metricsAPI requestsCountspanner.googleapis.com/api/api_request_count
spanner_instance/default_metricsBytes received by Cloud Spanner.Bytespanner.googleapis.com/api/received_bytes_count
spanner_instance/default_metricsAPI request ratePerSecondspanner.googleapis.com/api/request_count
spanner_instance/default_metricsRequest latenciesSecondspanner.googleapis.com/api/request_latencies
spanner_instance/default_metricsBytes sent by Cloud Spanner.Bytespanner.googleapis.com/api/sent_bytes_count
spanner_instance/default_metricsBackup storage used.Bytespanner.googleapis.com/instance/backup/used_bytes
spanner_instance/default_metricsSmoothed CPU utilizationPercentspanner.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/smoothed_utilization
spanner_instance/default_metricsCPU utilizationPercentspanner.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization
spanner_instance/default_metricsCPU utilization by priorityPercentspanner.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization_by_priority
spanner_instance/default_metricsNodesCountspanner.googleapis.com/instance/node_count
spanner_instance/default_metricsSessionsCountspanner.googleapis.com/instance/session_count
spanner_instance/default_metricsStorage limitBytespanner.googleapis.com/instance/storage/limit_bytes
spanner_instance/default_metricsStorage used.Bytespanner.googleapis.com/instance/storage/used_bytes
spanner_instance/default_metricsStorage utilizationPercentspanner.googleapis.com/instance/storage/utilization
spanner_instance/default_metricsCount of queriesCountspanner.googleapis.com/query_count
Related tags
Infrastructure Observability