Google Cloud Router

Use Site24x7 to monitor Google Cloud Routers to get better visibility into network performance, proactive issue detection, improved troubleshooting, capacity planning, alerting, compliance, security, and historical analysis.

Setup and configuration

Adding Google Cloud Routers 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 the JSON file that contains the private key of the service account to authenticate Site24x7 for performing resource discovery.
5. Select Cloud Routers from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list.
6. Select existing Notification Profiles, User Alerts Groups, 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 Routers to an existing Google Cloud monitor

If you already have a Google Cloud monitor configured for the service account, you can add Google Cloud Routers 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 Routers from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list and click Save.
5. After successful configuration, go to Cloud > GCP > Cloud Routers. Now you can view the discovered Google Cloud Routers resources.

Note

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

Polling frequency

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

Supported metrics

Metric	Description	Unit	Statistic
Received routes count	Current number of best routes received by router	Count	Average
BFD control packets receive intervals	BFD control packets receive intervals	Milliseconds	Average
Control packets received	Number of control packets received from this BFD session	Count	Average
Control packets rejected	Number of control packets rejected, from this BFD session	Count	Average
BFD control packets transmit intervals	BFD control packets transmit intervals	Milliseconds	Average
Control packets transmitted	Number of control packets transmitted from this BFD session	Count	Average
BFD session flap	Number of each BFD flap event (i.e. change from "Up" status) from this BFD session	Count	Average
BFD session status	Indicator for successful BFD session establishment	1 - Up 0 - Down	Boolean
BGP received routes count	Current number of routes received on a bgp session	Count	Average
BGP sent routes count	Current number of routes sent on a bgp session	Count	Average
BGP session status	Indicator for successful bgp session establishment	Boolean	1 - Up 0 - Down
BGP sessions down count	Number of BGP sessions on the router that are down	Count	Average
BGP sessions up count	Number of BGP sessions on the router that are up	Count	Average
Any unique destinations dropped	Indicates if any unique destinations were dropped in a network region due to quota exceeding	1 - Yes 0 - No	Boolean
Unique destinations dropped	The number of unique destinations dropped in a network region due to exceeding quota	Count	Average
Unique destinations limit	The maximum number of unique destinations allowed by route quota for this network region	Count	Average
Unique destinations used	Number of unique destinations used by learned routes for this network region	Count	Average
Allocated ports	Number of ports allocated to all VMs by the NAT gateway	Count	Average
Closed connections count	Count of connections closed over the NAT gateway	Count	Average
Received packets dropped count	Count of received packets dropped by the NAT gateway	Count	Average
Sent packets dropped count	Count of sent packets dropped by the NAT gateway	Count	Average
NAT allocation failed	Count of new connections created over the NAT gateway	Count	Average
Open connections	Number of connections currently open on the NAT gateway	Count	Average
Port usage	Maximum number of connections from VM to a single internet endpoint (IP:port)	Count	Average
Received bytes count	Count of bytes received via the NAT gateway	Bytes	Average
Sent bytes count	Count of bytes sent over the NAT gateway	Bytes	Average
Sent packets count	Count of packets sent via the NAT gateway	Count	Average
Router tasks up	Indicates if the router software tasks that are running successfully	1 - Up 0 - Down	Boolean
Sent routes count	Current number of routes sent by router	Count	Average

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 Routers.
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 Routers.
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 Routers 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 Routers.
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 Routers.
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 Routers resource:

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

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