Google Cloud (GCP) Uptime monitoring
Enable uptime monitoring for your Google Cloud resources to monitor only the availability of your Google Cloud resources without monitoring their performance metrics.
Note
Enabling uptime monitoring discontinues resource performance data collection.
Supported Google Cloud resource types:
- Google Kubernetes Engine (Kubernetes cluster)
- Memorystore (Redis)
- Compute Engine (VM instance)
Significant changes after enabling uptime monitoring
- Performance metrics will not be collected.
- Alerts based on metric thresholds will be stopped.
- API calls will be sent to collect only the availability data.
How to enable uptime monitoring for a Google Cloud resource:
- Log in to your Site24x7 account.
- Go to Cloud > GCP > the project under which the resource is located > the resource type > the monitor for which uptime monitoring is to be enabled.
- Click the hamburger
icon next to the monitor name, and then click Edit. - Toggle the Disable performance metrics collection option to Yes.
- Click Save.
The Summary page will be updated to show only the uptime of the monitored Google Cloud resource as Events Timeline and Availability Percentage Trend outage graph.
When is uptime monitoring recommended?
Uptime monitoring is recommended for businesses that require only the availability data and not the performance and health metrics of resources and applications hosted in Google Cloud. In such scenarios, it is recommended to gather only the availability data. This means the API calls to collect performance metrics are stopped, resulting in reduced cloud costs.