Centralied Monitoring and Alerting in GCP

[roberto_iacone]

Hi,

is there any of you that was able to replace any legacy and local on-prem monitoring solution by fully migrating it to GCP Operations?

If yes, are you able to monitor all legacy SNMP events, Cacti Metrics and consolidate all monitoring and alerting into a single project monitoring dashboard?

Have you used the BindPlane Collectors/Gateways? Have you used any other solution on top of GCP to get to this?

Have you hit the limit of 100 attachments to the monitoring project? (Maybe it is raised now from last time I checked)

Roberto

[jamespatrickm]

Hi @roberto_iacone,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

Yes, numerous organizations have effectively migrated from their outdated monitoring tools to the Google Cloud Platform's Operations Suite. GCP Operations Suite can be a complete monitoring solution, but the complexity of your system and your needs will determine if transitioning is feasible.

Below are the core GCP Operations Suite services:

• Cloud Monitoring (metrics, dashboards, alerting)
• Cloud Logging (log management and analysis)
• Cloud Trace (distributed tracing)
• Cloud Profiler (profiling to optimize code)
• Cloud Error Reporting (error tracking)

SNMP-based devices, such as network routers and switches, can be monitored using custom collectors. Alternatively, third-party tools like BindPlane can be used to collect SNMP traps and forward them to Cloud Monitoring. 

For Cacti Metrics, I believe you can leverage Prometheus with Google Cloud Monitoring integration.

Cloud Monitoring Dashboards allows the aggregation of different data sources into a unified dashboard

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[roberto_iacone]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

So it seems now the limits of monitored porojects in GCP have been lifted to 375 from 100, glad to see that going up.

When it comes to BindPlane, the GCP edition for free to GCP customers looks the great option for the Hybrid solution.

And about Cacti, yes, it seems that Prometeus Managed Service could be a replacement option there but would require a bit of engineering efforts instead of the out of the box solution from Cacti, but fair enough, not sure if they we plug it to the Cloud Monitoring Dashboards or we would need something like Grafana but then it creates a bit of disconnects from Dashboards