Google Cloud App Hub monitoring integration

Monitor your Google Cloud App Hub resources to track registered applications and their associated services and workloads, and keep an eye on quota usage across regions. Google Cloud App Hub monitor lets you maintain visibility into how your applications are organized and discovered across projects.

Benefits

Monitoring App Hub ensures that your service remains reliable, secure, and high-performing. Key benefits include:

Identify quota exhaustion before it prevents new services or workloads from being registered.
Track discovered versus registered services and workloads to fine-tune application organization.
Receive automated alerts and use IT automation to maintain SLA compliance and reduce downtime.
Consolidate App Hub metrics with other Google Cloud Platform services for a single pane of glass view.
Rest assured that bulk configuration and agent upgrades ensure smooth monitoring across multiple applications.

Use cases

Here are some use cases where Google Cloud App Hub monitoring will be helpful:

Monitor application service and workload counts to detect unregistered resources in real time.
Capture discovered service and workload trends to quickly identify newly deployed resources.
Visualize quota usage per region per application to plan capacity and avoid limits.
Set thresholds for quota usage to ensure contractual obligations are met.
Track quota exceeded events to strengthen application governance.
Integrate App Hub monitoring with other Google Cloud Platform services (e.g., Cloud Monitoring, Service Directory, GKE) for holistic visibility.

Setup and configuration

Adding Google Cloud App Hub while configuring a new Google Cloud monitor

If you have not configured a Google Cloud monitor yet, add one by following the steps below:
1. Go to Cloud > GCP > Add GCP Monitor or Admin > Cloud Monitoring > Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
2. Provide a unique display name for identification purposes.
3. Upload the JSON file that contains the private key of the service account to authenticate and perform resource discovery.
4. Select App Hub from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list.
5. Select existing Notification Profiles, User Alerts Groups, Tags, and IT Automation Templates or add new ones. You can also integrate alarms with your preferred third-party service.
6. Click Start GCP Monitoring.
Adding Google Cloud App Hub to an existing Google Cloud monitor

If you already have a Google Cloud monitor configured for the service account, you can add Google Cloud App Hub by following the steps below:
1. Go to Cloud > GCP and select your Google Cloud Platform monitor.
2. Click the hamburger icon next to Service View and select Edit, which brings you to the Edit GCP Monitor page.
3. On the Edit GCP Monitor page, select App Hub from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list and click Save.
4. After successful configuration, go to Cloud > GCP > App Hub. Now you can view the discovered Google Cloud App Hub resources.

Note

It will take approximately five minutes to discover new Google Cloud Platform resources.

Licensing

Each Google Cloud App Hub monitor consumes one basic monitor license.

Polling frequency

Google Cloud App Hub monitor collects minute-wise metric data, and the statuses of your Google App Hub resources are reported every five minutes.

Supported metrics

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Application Services	The number of services associated with an App Hub application.	Average	Count
Application Workloads	The number of workloads associated with an App Hub application.	Average	Count
Applications	The number of applications registered in App Hub.	Average	Count
Discovered Services	The number of services discovered by App Hub that are not yet registered to an application.	Average	Count
Discovered Workloads	The number of workloads discovered by App Hub that are not yet registered to an application.	Average	Count
Service Quota Exceeded (Per Region, Per Application)	The number of times the quota for services per region per application was exceeded.	Total	Count
Service Quota Limit (Per Region, Per Application)	The configured quota limit for services per region per application.	Average	Count
Service Quota Usage (Per Region, Per Application)	The current usage against the quota limit for services per region per application.	Average	Count
Workload Quota Exceeded (Per Region, Per Application)	The number of times the quota for workloads per region per application was exceeded.	Total	Count
Workload Quota Limit (Per Region, Per Application)	The configured quota limit for workloads per region per application.	Average	Count
Workload Quota Usage (Per Region, Per Application)	The current usage against the quota limit for workloads per region per application.	Average	Count

Threshold configuration

Global configuration
1. In the web client, go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane, then select Threshold and Availability from the drop-down menu.
3. Click Add Threshold Profile in the top-right corner.
4. For Monitor Type, select App Hub.
5. Specify the threshold values for the required metrics, then click Save.
Monitor-level configuration
1. In the web client, go to Cloud > GCP > App Hub.
2. Select a resource you would like to set a threshold for, then click the hamburger icon.
3. Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit App Hub Monitor page.
4. Specify the threshold values for the required metrics, then click Save.

IT Automation

IT Automation tools automatically resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention. The IT Automation tools automate repetitive tasks and automatically remediate threshold breaches. The alarm engine continually evaluates system events for which thresholds are set and executes the mapped automation when there is a breach.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

Configuration Rules

Editing multiple monitors to associate different monitor groups or add a different tag can be a tedious process. With Configuration Rules, you can automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Create custom rules to track configuration changes continuously and achieve the ideal configuration settings.

How to add Configuration Rules

Summary

The Summary tab will give you the performance data organized by time for the metrics listed above. To view the summary:

Go to Cloud > GCP > App Hub.
Select a resource.
Click the Summary tab.

Configuration Details

The Configuration Details tab provides details on the configurations of application instances. To get the configuration details:

Go to Cloud > GCP > App Hub.
Select a resource.
Click the Configuration Details tab.

Reports

Gain in-depth data about the various parameters of your monitored resources and accentuate your service performance using our insightful reports.

To view reports for a Google App Hub resource:

Go to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select App Hub from the menu on the left.
You can find the Availability Summary Report, Performance Report, and Inventory Report for one selected monitor. Or you can get the Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and Performance Report for all the Google App Hub monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Google App Hub monitor:

Click the Summary tab.
Get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking Availability.
You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking any chart title.