Google Cloud KMS Monitoring Integration

Get the best out of your Google Cloud Key Management System (Cloud KMS) service by integrating Site24x7 monitoring. Know how much requests your Cloud KMS gets and the latency to tweak your cloud infrastructure.

Setup and configuration

Adding Google Cloud KMS 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. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
2. Go to Cloud > GCP > Add GCP Monitor or Admin > Cloud Monitoring > Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
3. Provide a unique display name for identification purposes.
4. Upload a service account JSON file to authenticate Site24x7 for performing resource discovery.
5. Select Cloud KMS from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list.
6. Select existing Notification Profiles, User Alerts Groups, Tags, and IT Automation Templates or add new ones. You can also integrate Site24x7's alarms with your preferred third-party service.
7. Click Start GCP Monitoring.
Adding Google Cloud KMS to an existing Google Cloud monitor

If you already have a Google Cloud monitor configured for the service account, you can add Google Cloud KMS by following the steps below:
1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
2. Go to Cloud > GCP and select your GCP monitor.
3. Click the hamburger icon next to Service View and select Edit, which brings you to the Edit GCP Monitor page.
4. On the Edit GCP Monitor page, select Cloud KMS from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list and click Save.
5. After successful configuration, go to Cloud > GCP > Cloud KMS. Now you can view the discovered Google Cloud KMS resources.

Note

It will take approximately five minutes to discover new GCP resources.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Google Cloud KMS monitor collects minute-wise metric data, and the statuses of your Google Cloud KMS are reported every five minutes.

Supported metrics

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Requests to the EKM Service	The number of requests sent to the External Key Manager (EKM) service since the last data collection	Average	Count
Latencies to the EKM Service	The distribution of latencies to the External Key Manager (EKM) service	Average	Count
Peak Crypto Ops	The maximum per-second crypto request count in the project	Maximum	Count per second

Threshold configuration

Global configuration
1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and select Threshold and Availability from the drop-down menu.
3. Click Add Threshold Profile in the top-right corner.
4. For Monitor Type, select Cloud KMS.
5. Now you can set the threshold values for the metrics listed above.
Monitor-level configuration
1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to Cloud > GCP > Cloud KMS.
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 Cloud KMS Monitor page.
4. You can set the threshold values for the metrics with the Threshold and Availability option.
5. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools that 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 Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Also, Site24x7 allows you to 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 > Cloud KMS.
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 > Cloud KMS.
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 Cloud KMS resource:

Go to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select Cloud KMS 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 Cloud KMS monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Google Cloud KMS 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.