You're reading from Observability with Grafana Monitor, control, and visualize your Kubernetes and cloud platforms using the LGTM stack

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248004

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Grafana

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Rob Chapman

Peter Holmes

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Get Started with Grafana and Observability

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Observability and the Grafana Stack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Instrumenting Applications and Infrastructure

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up a Learning Environment with Demo Applications

5. Part 2: Implement Telemetry in Grafana

6. Chapter 4: Looking at Logs with Grafana Loki

7. Chapter 5: Monitoring with Metrics Using Grafana Mimir and Prometheus

8. Chapter 6: Tracing Technicalities with Grafana Tempo

9. Chapter 7: Interrogating Infrastructure with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Azure

10. Part 3: Grafana in Practice

11. Chapter 8: Displaying Data with Dashboards

12. Chapter 9: Managing Incidents Using Alerts

13. Chapter 10: Automation with Infrastructure as Code

14. Chapter 11: Architecting an Observability Platform

15. Part 4: Advanced Applications and Best Practices of Grafana

16. Chapter 12: Real User Monitoring with Grafana

17. Chapter 13: Application Performance with Grafana Pyroscope and k6

18. Chapter 14: Supporting DevOps Processes with Observability

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting, Implementing Best Practices, and More with Grafana

20. Index

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Monitoring GCP using Grafana

Grafana Cloud comes with support for Google Cloud Monitoring, allowing you to query, trigger alerts, and visualize your data in Grafana dashboards. It does not store any telemetry data in Grafana; it only retrieves it at query time.

Let’s now look at the steps for configuring the data source.

Configuring the data source

Data sources can be accessed from the menu under the Connections item. Search for Google Cloud Monitoring in the Data sources search box; you will see a screen similar to the one shown in Figure 7.11. Click on Google Cloud Monitoring to open the settings page. The settings screen prompts for the Google configuration needed to establish and test the connection. The Connections search results screen is shown here: