Monitor Google Cloud projects using auto-discovery
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.
- For a complete list of supported services, see Google Cloud supported service metrics.
- To monitor any metric from any Google resource not covered by those services, follow the instructions on this page to activate auto-discovery.
Possible auto-discovery scenarios depend on the services from which you want to monitor metrics:
- Expand metrics for already supported services
- Integrate any service based on the resource name
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.
monitoring.metricDescriptors.listmonitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.getmonitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.list
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_nameallowAutodiscovery: 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
- Auto-discovery mode is designed to detect only metrics linked to a single resource.
- These metrics are not attached to any supported service, so there will be no entity or any enrichment extracted from them.
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.
autodiscoveryQueryInterval60.60autodiscoveryIncludeAlphaMetricstrue, it enables the automatic discovery of experimental Google Cloud metrics withthe 'Alpha' label.trueautodiscoveryAddLabelstrue, it appends the label [Autodiscovered] to metric names during automatic discovery.trueautodiscoveryResourcesYamlautodiscoveryBlockListYamlSelect 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/