diff --git a/docs/sources/_index.md b/docs/sources/_index.md index 6d21b1bd0b9..364b9c91353 100755 --- a/docs/sources/_index.md +++ b/docs/sources/_index.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ aliases = ["/docs/grafana/v1.1", "/docs/grafana/latest/guides/reference/admin",
- There are two ways to authenticate the Google Cloud Monitoring plugin - either by uploading a Service Account key file, or by + There are two ways to authenticate the Google Cloud Monitoring plugin - either by uploading a Service Account key file or by automatically retrieving credentials from the Google metadata server. The latter option is only available when running Grafana on a GCE virtual machine.
- First you need to create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Service Account for the Project you want to show data for. - A Grafana datasource integrates with one GCP Project. If you want to visualize data from multiple GCP Projects - then you need to create one datasource per GCP Project. + There are two ways to authenticate the Google Cloud Monitoring plugin. You can upload a Service Account key file or automatically retrieve + credentials from the Google metadata server. The latter option is only available when running Grafana on a GCE virtual machine.
The Monitoring Viewer role provides all the permissions that Grafana needs. The following API - needs to be enabled on GCP for the datasource to work: + needs to be enabled on GCP for the data source to work: Detailed instructions on how to create a Service Account can be found - in the documentation.