Help Docs

Google Cloud Instance Group monitoring integration

Monitor your Google Cloud Instance Groups with Site24x7 and gain insights into key metrics that impact your instance group's performance and capacity. This managed instance group (MIG) monitoring tool provides performance metrics that can help you manage your Google Cloud autoscaling environment.

Setup and configuration

  • Adding Google Instance Group while configuring a new Google Cloud monitor

    If you have not configured a Google Cloud monitor yet, add one by following the steps below:

    1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
    2. Go to Cloud > GCP > Add GCP Monitor or Admin > Cloud Monitoring > Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
    3. Provide a unique display name for identification purposes.
    4. Upload a service account JSON file to authenticate Site24x7 for performing resource discovery.
    5. Select Instance Group from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list.
    6. Select existing Notification Profiles, User Alerts Groups, Tags, and IT Automation Templates or add new ones. You can also integrate Site24x7's alarms with your preferred third-party service.
    7. Click Start GCP Monitoring.
  • Adding Google Cloud Instance Group to an existing Google Cloud monitor

    If you already have a Google Cloud monitor configured for the service account, you can add Google Instance Group by following the steps below:

    1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
    2. Go to Cloud > GCP, select your Google Cloud monitor, then go to any of the dashboards on the left pane of your Google Cloud monitor..
    3. Click the hamburger icon Hamburger icon and select Edit, which brings you to the Edit GCP Monitor page.
    4. On the Edit GCP Monitor page, select Instance Group from the Select the Resources for Monitoring drop-down and click Save.
    5. After successful configuration, go to Cloud > GCP > Instance Group. Now you can view the discovered Instance Group resources.
Note

It will take approximately 5 minutes to discover new GCP resources.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Google Instance Group monitor collects metrics data every minute and the statuses of your Google Instance Group resources every 5 minutes.

Supported metrics

Metric nameDescriptionStatisticUnit
Instance Group Capacity as Predicted The product of total number of VMs and their utilization targets Average Count
Instance Group Size as Predicted Predicted number of VMs in the instance group based on autoscaling policy Average Count
Instance Group Utilization as Predicted Predicted Instance Group utilization Average Count
Instance Group Size Current number of VMs in the instance group Total Count
Autoscaling Metrics Utilization Capacity Available autoscaling metrics utilization Total Count
Autoscaling Metrics Current Utilization Utilized autoscaling metrics Average Count
Scheduled Size Expected instance group size when a scheduled scaling event is initiated Average Count
Stable - No Actions Count of stable VMs that are not undergoing scaling actions Average Count
Creating Count of VMs being created Average Count
Deleting Count of VMs being deleted Average Count
Abandoning Count of VMs being abandoned Average Count
Restarting Count of VMs being restarted Average Count
Suspending Count of VMs being suspended Average Count
Stopping Count of VMs being stopped Average Count
Cool Down Period Time between two scaling Average Seconds
Recommended Size Recommended size of the instance group Average Count
Target Size Desired number of VM instances in the group defined by the autoscaler or manual configuration Average Count
Scaling Utilization The size of the instance group divided by replicas Average Percent

Threshold configuration

  • Global configuration
    1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
    2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and select Threshold and Availability from the drop-down menu.
    3. Click Add Threshold Profile in the top-right corner.
    4. For Monitor Type, select GCP Instance Group.
    5. Now you can set the threshold values for the metrics listed above.
  • Monitor-level configuration
    1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to Cloud > GCP > Instance Group.
    2. Select a resource you would like to set a threshold for, then click the hamburger icon Hamburger icon.
    3. Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit GCP Instance Group Monitor page.
    4. You can set the threshold values for the metrics with the Threshold and Availability option.
    5. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools that automatically resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention. The IT Automation tools automate repetitive tasks and automatically remediate threshold breaches. The alarm engine continually evaluates system events for which thresholds are set and executes the mapped automation when there is a breach.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

Editing multiple monitors to associate different monitor groups or add a different tag can be a tedious process. With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Also, Site24x7 allows you to create custom rules to track configuration changes continuously and achieve the ideal configuration settings.

How to add Configuration Rules

Summary

The Summary tab will give you the performance data organized by time for the metrics listed above. To view the summary:

  1. Go to Cloud > GCP > GCP Instance Group.
  2. Select a resource.
  3. Click the Summary tab.

Configuration Details

The Configuration Details tab provides details on the configurations of application instances. To get the configuration details:

  1. Go to Cloud > GCP > GCP Instance Group.
  2. Select a resource.
  3. Click the Configuration Details tab.

Reports

Gain in-depth data about the various parameters of your monitored resources and accentuate your service performance using our insightful reports.

To view reports for a Google Cloud Instance Group resource:

  1. Go to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
  2. Select Google Cloud Instance Group from the menu on the left.
  3. You can find the Availability Summary Report, Performance Report, and Inventory Report for one selected monitor. Or you can get the Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and Performance Report for all the Google Cloud Instance Group monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Google Cloud Instance Group monitor:

  1. Click the Summary tab.
  2. Get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking Availability.
  3. You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking any chart title.

Related content

Was this document helpful?

Would you like to help us improve our documents? Tell us what you think we could do better.


We're sorry to hear that you're not satisfied with the document. We'd love to learn what we could do to improve the experience.


Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback. We'll use your feedback to improve our online help resources.

Shortlink has been copied!