adding another project to monitoring project scope

[gcp888]

i create a monitoring project and trying to add another project where my GCE VMs are. I am using my owner account. in my monitoring peoject, I go to monitoring/metric scope and try to add my other project in there bu keep getting error

Failed to add 1 project to this Metrics Scope

any idea?

[DamianS]

Hello @gcp888  ,Welcome on Google Cloud Community.

Did you've tried to assign to your user Monitoring Admin role at project ( Scoping Project)  where you want to add other projects ( Monitored Projects) ?

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[gcp888]

wouldnt owner permissions allow this? i am using the owner account on both projects

[DamianS]

Basically Owner does not contain own all permissions, this is why I've asked about Monitoring Admin. Are you able to paste screenshot with the exact alert ? Additionally, are you able to check what Logs Explorer says about that ? 

[gcp888]

here is the screenshot

[gcp888]

from the monitoring project I am not able to add the other projects where y resources are. but from the resource project I am able to add the monitoring project which is not what I want. I want to do the opposite

[DamianS · Accepted solution]

Okay, so Stackdriver has two types of project:

* Scoping Project - project for which you can assign other projects
* Monitored Projects - projects monitored by alerting policies configured at Scoping Project.

Be sure, that monitoring.googleapis.com has been enabled on scoping project. Once enabled, execute following command 

gcloud beta monitoring metrics-scopes create projects/MONITORED_PROJECT_ID --project=SCOPING_PROJECT_ID

Or try to add projects via UI. Should work.

[gcp888]

thanks that was it. API was not enabled.