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How do I configure a GCP monitoring dashboard with Pulumi?

In this guide, we will configure a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) monitoring dashboard using Pulumi. The dashboard will display metrics and logs from your GCP resources, helping you to monitor and analyze the performance and health of your infrastructure.

We will use the gcp.monitoring.Dashboard resource from the Pulumi GCP provider to create the dashboard.

Below is the Pulumi program written in TypeScript that accomplishes this task:

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as gcp from "@pulumi/gcp";

// Define the dashboard JSON configuration
const dashboardJson = JSON.stringify({
    displayName: "My Monitoring Dashboard",
    gridLayout: {
        columns: 2,
        widgets: [
            {
                title: "CPU Usage",
                xyChart: {
                    dataSets: [
                        {
                            timeSeriesQuery: {
                                timeSeriesFilter: {
                                    filter: 'metric.type="compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization"',
                                    aggregation: {
                                        alignmentPeriod: "60s",
                                        perSeriesAligner: "ALIGN_MEAN",
                                    },
                                },
                            },
                            plotType: "LINE",
                        },
                    ],
                    yAxis: {
                        label: "CPU Utilization",
                        scale: "LINEAR",
                    },
                },
            },
            {
                title: "Memory Usage",
                xyChart: {
                    dataSets: [
                        {
                            timeSeriesQuery: {
                                timeSeriesFilter: {
                                    filter: 'metric.type="compute.googleapis.com/instance/memory/usage"',
                                    aggregation: {
                                        alignmentPeriod: "60s",
                                        perSeriesAligner: "ALIGN_MEAN",
                                    },
                                },
                            },
                            plotType: "LINE",
                        },
                    ],
                    yAxis: {
                        label: "Memory Usage",
                        scale: "LINEAR",
                    },
                },
            },
        ],
    },
});

// Create the GCP monitoring dashboard
const dashboard = new gcp.monitoring.Dashboard("myDashboard", {
    dashboardJson: dashboardJson,
});

export const dashboardUrl = pulumi.interpolate`https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/builder/${dashboard.id}`;

Key Points

  • We use the gcp.monitoring.Dashboard resource to define the monitoring dashboard.
  • The dashboardJson contains the configuration for the dashboard, including the layout and widgets.
  • The dashboard includes widgets for monitoring CPU and memory usage of GCP instances.
  • The dashboardUrl output provides a link to the newly created dashboard in the GCP console.

Summary

In this guide, we configured a GCP monitoring dashboard using Pulumi. We defined the layout and widgets in the dashboardJson and used the gcp.monitoring.Dashboard resource to create the dashboard. The dashboard helps monitor the CPU and memory usage of GCP instances.

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