Google Cloud Spanner

Google Cloud Spanner

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

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Overview

This Dynatrace extension leverages data collected from the Google Operations API to constantly monitor health and performance of Google Cloud Spanner 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 15 metrics that are specific to Google Cloud Spanner, like API requests, Bytes received by Cloud Spanner., API request rate, and more.
Build custom dashboards for your cloud infrastructure.
Analyze Google Cloud Spanner logs.
Use preconfigured alerting.
Set custom alerts that trigger remediation workflows.

Google Cloud Spanner 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 1.250+

Details

This extension package contains:

Configuration for Google Cloud Spanner metric ingest based on your selected feature set (see the full list of feature sets and metrics)
Topology mapping and service instance analysis view
Google Cloud Spanner predefined alerts for: Google Cloud Spanner Instance CPU utilization [GCP], Google Cloud Spanner Instance storage utilization [GCP]

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

Get started

To add this extension to your environment:

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

Following GCP integration and Google Cloud Spanner configuration:

The first data points will be ingested by Dynatrace Davis within ~5 minutes.
Explore Google Cloud Spanner metrics in Data Explorer and create custom charts.
Activate predefined alerting or set custom events for alerting

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

alerts

2

screen injections

1

generic relationship

1

screen actions

1

metric metadata

15

screen layout

1

generic type

2

screen entities lists

1

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
API requests	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.api.api_request_count	-	Count
Bytes received by Cloud Spanner.	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.api.received_bytes_count	-	Byte
API request rate	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.api.request_count.gauge	-	PerSecond
Request latencies	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.api.request_latencies	-	Second
Bytes sent by Cloud Spanner.	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.api.sent_bytes_count	-	Byte
Backup storage used.	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.backup.used_bytes	-	Byte
Smoothed CPU utilization	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.cpu.smoothed_utilization	-	Percent
CPU utilization	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.cpu.utilization	-	Percent
CPU utilization by priority	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.cpu.utilization_by_priority	-	Percent
Nodes	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.node_count.gauge	-	Count
Sessions	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.session_count.gauge	-	Count
Storage limit	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.storage.limit_bytes	-	Byte
Storage used.	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.storage.used_bytes	-	Byte
Storage utilization	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.instance.storage.utilization	-	Percent
Count of queries	cloud.gcp.spanner_googleapis_com.query_count	-	Count

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To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.

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Version 1.1.3

Updated

Added entity log linking

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Version 1.1.2

Updated

Feature sets & metrics section in HUB Product Information page

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Version 1.1.1

Fixed

GCP project details page doesn't crash anymore when cloud:gcp:spanner_instance type is not declared in environment

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Version 1.1.0

Added

Metrics now support management-zone filtering (main entity type specified for metrics)

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Version 1.0.3

Added

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Auto publishing extensions to Hub

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Support for GCP overview

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