Added "curated dashboards" information and broke down, rearranged topics. (#30659)

* Change to introduction section.

* Checkin changes.

* Check in changes.

* Updated heading levels for better readability.

* Checkin changes.

* Broke down topic and fixed relrefs. Also, resized images.

* Added one more relref from preconfig dashboards to main topic.

* Adding Eric's changes.

* Added alias.

* Updated alias with correct syntax, also updated description typo for "Preconfigured dashboards"s

* Checking in changes from Diana.

* Update docs/sources/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/_index.md

Co-authored-by: Diana Payton <52059945+oddlittlebird@users.noreply.github.com>

* One last change.

Co-authored-by: Diana Payton <52059945+oddlittlebird@users.noreply.github.com>
This commit is contained in:
achatterjee-grafana
2021-01-28 17:09:26 -05:00
committed by GitHub
parent db9a8bf04a
commit 507dc436cb
11 changed files with 67 additions and 73 deletions

View File

@@ -2,20 +2,19 @@
<div class="grafana-info-box">
<h4>Google Cloud Monitoring Authentication</h4>
<p>
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.
</p>
<h5>Uploading a Service Account Key File</h5>
<p>
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.
</p>
<p>
The <strong>Monitoring Viewer</strong> 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:
<a
class="external-link"
target="_blank"
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@
<p>
Detailed instructions on how to create a Service Account can be found
<a class="external-link" target="_blank" href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/cloudmonitoring/"
<a class="external-link" target="_blank" href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/_index.md"
>in the documentation.</a
>
</p>