Docs » Connect to your cloud service provider » Connect to Google Cloud Platform

Connect to Google Cloud Platform 🔗

With a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can track your Google Cloud Monitoring metrics and monitor your GCP services in one place.

  1. Before you start, check GCP authentication, permissions and supported regions.

  2. Next, see Connect to Google Cloud Platform: Guided setup and other options.

  3. For a list of supported GCP services, see Available GCP integrations.

Install the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector¶

To take advantage of the full benefits of the Splunk Observability Cloud platform, install the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Track your OpenTelemetry enablement¶

To track the degree of OpenTelemetry enablement in your GCP integrations:

  1. From Splunk Observability Cloud, go to Data Management > Deployed integrations > Google Cloud Platform.

  2. Select OpenTelemetry Enabled to see whether the OTel Collector is installed on each GCE instance or GKE cluster. This helps you identify the instances that still need to be instrumented.

Amount of GCP entities with the Collector installed.

  1. For OTel Collector instances that are successfully instrumented, you can see which version of the Collector is deployed.

Next steps¶

To validate your setup, examine the details of your GCP integration as displayed in the list at the end of the setup page.

This page was last updated on Nov 14, 2024.