Google Cloud Load Balancing

Supported by Dynatrace

Get insights into Google Load Balancing metrics collected from the Google Operations API to ensure health of your cloud infrastructure.

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This Dynatrace extension leverages data collected from the Google Operations API to constantly monitor health and performance of Google Cloud Load Balancing services. This extension combines all relevant data into pre-configured dashboards and provides alerting and event tracking.

This is intended for users, who want to:

enrich their monitoring data with metrics and logs from Google Operations API

This enables you to:

View and analyze 30 metrics that are specific to Google Cloud Load Balancing, like Backend latency, Backend Request Bytes, Backend Request Count, and more.
Use dashboard presets for immediate visibility into availability, usage, and performance of your Google Cloud Load Balancing services.
Build custom dashboards for your cloud infrastructure.
Analyze Google Cloud Load Balancing logs.
Set custom alerts that trigger remediation workflows.

Google Cloud Load Balancing metric and log ingestion requires advanced GCP integration.

Compatibility requirements

Dynatrace GCP integration version 1.0.0+. To enable metric and log ingestion, see Dynatrace Documentation.
Dynatrace version 1.256+

Get started

To add this extension to your environment:

Follow the instructions detailed in Dynatrace Documentation. (Ignore the “Download” button below.)
Ensure that you have GCP integration running in your environment and that Google Cloud Load Balancing service is configured.

Following GCP integration and Google Cloud Load Balancing configuration:

The first data points will be ingested by Dynatrace Davis within ~5 minutes.
Work with the Google Cloud Load Balancing preconfigured dashboard to understand its capabilities.
Explore Google Cloud Load Balancing metrics in Data Explorer and create custom charts.
Set custom events for alerting

Details

This extension package contains:

Configuration for Google Cloud Load Balancing metrics ingest based on your selected feature set (see the full list of feature sets and metrics)
Google Cloud Load Balancing preconfigured dashboard
Topology mapping and service instance analysis view

To provide correlation and causation analysis all ingested metrics and logs are analyzed by the Dynatrace Davis AI engine, which consumes DDUs.