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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>
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<h4>Google Cloud Monitoring Authentication</h4>
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<p>
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There are two ways to authenticate the Google Cloud Monitoring plugin - either by uploading a Service Account key file, or by
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There are two ways to authenticate the Google Cloud Monitoring plugin - either by uploading a Service Account key file or by
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automatically retrieving credentials from the Google metadata server. The latter option is only available when
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running Grafana on a GCE virtual machine.
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<h5>Uploading a Service Account Key File</h5>
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<p>
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First you need to create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Service Account for the Project you want to show data for.
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A Grafana datasource integrates with one GCP Project. If you want to visualize data from multiple GCP Projects
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then you need to create one datasource per GCP Project.
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There are two ways to authenticate the Google Cloud Monitoring plugin. You can upload a Service Account key file or automatically retrieve
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credentials from the Google metadata server. The latter option is only available when running Grafana on a GCE virtual machine.
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</p>
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<p>
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The <strong>Monitoring Viewer</strong> role provides all the permissions that Grafana needs. The following API
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needs to be enabled on GCP for the datasource to work:
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needs to be enabled on GCP for the data source to work:
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<p>
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Detailed instructions on how to create a Service Account can be found
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<a class="external-link" target="_blank" href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/cloudmonitoring/"
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<a class="external-link" target="_blank" href="https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/_index.md"
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>in the documentation.</a
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