Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

To provide visibility and insights of Google Cloud Platform cloud based environments, you can install a host agent to automatically discover and monitors GCP services by:

• Providing realtime insights into metadata, configuration, metrics
• Watch the health of each service and alert on issues

Platforms

• Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Google App Engine
• Google Compute Engine

Monitored Services

• Google Cloud SQL

Installation

The Instana Google Cloud integration uses Service Accounts to create an API connection between Google Cloud and Instana. Below are instructions for creating the service account and providing Instana the service account credentials to begin making API calls on your behalf.

1. Navigate to Google Cloud credentials page for the Google Cloud project you would like to setup the Instana integration.
2. Press Create credentials and then select Service account key
3. In the Service account dropdown, select New service account
4. Give the service account a unique name
5. For Role, select: Compute engine —> Compute Viewer -> Monitoring —> Monitoring Viewer -> Cloud SQL —> Cloud SQL Viewer
6. Select JSON as the key type, and press create
7. Take note where this file is saved, as it is needed to complete the integration
8. Add a field to the configuration.yml pointing to the credentials file. Examples of this configuration are provided in the setup for each monitored service.

In order to monitor project(s), the following services need to be enabled:

• Google Cloud billing
• Stackdriver Monitoring API
• Compute Engine API