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Grafana and GCP

Google Cloud Monitoring​

It is possible to get metrics from a Google Cloud project by the use of the Grafana data source “Google Cloud Monitoring”.

Example query Google Cloud Monitoring Logging Service

Through the use of this data source, you will be able to see all metrics that are exposed through different Google Cloud services, such as CloudSQL, BigQuery, CloudKMS, Logging etc. This can then be added to your dashboards and alarms.

Setting up the data source​

While the data source is present, it will not scrape all projects in the Kartverket organisation in GCP by default. As of writing this (13 Oct 2023), SKIP does not facilitate this setup in any particular way, but you are free to do it the “SKIP way”.

To add your GCP project to the list of projects, simply add the GCP role monitoring.viewer to the Google Service Account grafana-scraper@kubernetes-0dca.iam.gserviceaccount.com. It should look like the below image.

How IAM for the SA should look after adding the correct role

Remember that if you do not have access to editing IAM for your projects by default, you can always elevate your access using JIT Access .

Note that the setup for this may change in the future as this feature is somewhat unexplored as of writing this documentation.