Configure Cloud Monitoring inputs for the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform

Configure Cloud Monitoring inputs for Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform using Splunk Web or via configuration file. Use the information in the inputs parameters table below in order to send your events and metrics to a Splunk platform event index.

Configure Cloud Monitoring inputs using the Splunk Web

1. Click Create New Input in the Inputs tab, and then choose Cloud Monitoring.
2. Enter the Name, Credentials, Project, Monitored Projects, Cloud Monitor Metrics, Interval, Start Time and Index using the information in the inputs parameter table.

Do not go to the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform configuration page under Settings > Data Inputs to configure Google Cloud Platform inputs. This page is not supported for this type of input.

Configure Cloud Monitoring inputs using configuration file

1. Create a file named google_cloud_monitor_inputs.conf under $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_google-cloudplatform/local.

2. Create stanzas using the following template (Use the google_cloud_monitor_inputs.conf.spec file in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_google-cloudplatform/README for reference).

   [<name>]
   google_credentials_name = <value>
   google_project = <value>
   google_monitored_projects = <value>
   google_metrics = <value>
   polling_interval = <value>
   oldest = <value>
   index = <value>
   

   3. Save and return to your Splunk instance.

Restart your Splunk platform after making changes to configuration (.conf) files.

Input Parameters

Each attribute in the following table corresponds to a field in Splunk Web.

Attribute	Corresponding field in Splunk Web	Description
name	Name	Enter a unique name of the Google Cloud Monitoring input
google_credentials_name	Credentials	The stanza name defined in google_cloud_credentials.conf
google_project	Project	Google project ID
google_metrics	Cloud Monitor Metrics	Google cloud monitor metrics. You can add several google metrics separated by “,”. You can set it to .* to add all the metrics.
google_monitored_projects	Monitored Projects	Google Cloud Platform monitored projects. You can add several Google Cloud monitored projects, separated by commas (,), and you can set it to All, in order to add all the monitored projects.
polling_interval	Interval	Data collection interval in seconds. The default is 300 seconds.
oldest	Start Date Time	The add-on starts collecting data with a date later than this time. The format is YYYY-DD-MMThh:mm:ss. For example 2016-07-15T09:00:00.
index	Index	The index in which to store Google Cloud Monitoring data.