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  2. Configure a GCP Monitoring Alert Policy

How do I configure a GCP monitoring alert policy?

In this guide, we will configure a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Monitoring Alert Policy using Pulumi in TypeScript. This alert policy will help you monitor your GCP resources and notify you when certain conditions are met.

Key Points:

  • We will create a GCP Monitoring Alert Policy resource.
  • The alert policy will include conditions and notification channels.
  • We will define the necessary properties for the alert policy.
import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as gcp from "@pulumi/gcp";

// Define a notification channel
const notificationChannel = new gcp.monitoring.NotificationChannel("exampleChannel", {
    displayName: "Example Notification Channel",
    type: "email",
    labels: {
        email_address: "example@example.com",
    },
});

// Define an alert policy
const alertPolicy = new gcp.monitoring.AlertPolicy("exampleAlertPolicy", {
    displayName: "Example Alert Policy",
    combiner: "OR",
    conditions: [{
        displayName: "Example Condition",
        conditionThreshold: {
            filter: "metric.type=\"compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization\" AND resource.type=\"gce_instance\"",
            comparison: "COMPARISON_GT",
            thresholdValue: 0.8,
            duration: "60s",
            aggregations: [{
                alignmentPeriod: "60s",
                perSeriesAligner: "ALIGN_MEAN",
            }],
        },
    }],
    notificationChannels: [notificationChannel.id],
    documentation: {
        content: "This alert is triggered when the CPU utilization exceeds 80%.",
        mimeType: "text/markdown",
    },
    alertStrategy: {
        notificationRateLimit: {
            period: "3600s",
        },
    },
    enabled: true,
});

Summary

In this guide, we configured a GCP Monitoring Alert Policy using Pulumi in TypeScript. We created a notification channel and an alert policy with specific conditions and notification settings. This setup helps monitor the CPU utilization of GCE instances and notifies you via email when the utilization exceeds 80%.

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