Google Cloud Spanner

Supported by Dynatrace

Get insights into Google Cloud Spanner 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 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+

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

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.