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Published On Jun 05, 2026 - 8:30 AM

Google Cloud Platform

Configure an account with view permissions in Container Cluster Management to enable data retrieval from Google Cloud Platform.
In the context of Google Cloud Platform support, Container Cluster Management also supports Google Cloud Monitoring tools.

Configure GCP for Container Cluster Management

Access Rights
: The project (account) must include a service account with at least the Project Viewer role. Generate a new key in JSON format for this service account, as it is required to configure Container Cluster Management and enable data retrieval from Google Cloud Platform.
The Google Cloud Platform requires the following steps to create a Key respective Service account.
Step 1
:  Navigate to the Google Cloud Platform console at
https://console.cloud.google.com
Step 2
: Select the project that you want to monitor. Note down the project ID.
Step 3
: Confirm that the correct project is open on the dashboard.
Step 4
: From the left navigation pane, select
IAM & Admin
 >
Service Accounts
Step 5
: Select
Create Service Account
on the Service Accounts page. The
Create service Account
 dialog box is displayed. Enter the account name.
Step 6
: On the Service Accounts page, in Role, select the
Project
 ->
Viewer
 role.
Step 7
: Optionally, grant users access to this service account and finalize by selecting Done.
Step 8
: Now, you will be redirected to the service accounts page. Here, select the service account's email address that you have created.
Step 9
: Select the Keys tab.
Step 10
: Click the Add key drop-down menu, then select Create new key.
Step 11
: Select JSON as the Key type and select Create. Selecting Create downloads a service account key file. After you download the key file, you cannot download it again.
At this point you have successfully configured GCP to exchange data with Container Cluster Management.

IAM connection

Once all configuration steps have been completed at the cloud provider level, configure the tenant to continue data exchange for Container Cluster Management.

Pre-requisites

Complete configuration on the Cloud Provider console.
Step 1:
 From the tenant landing page, select the Main menu or the
Manage IAM
 tile.
Step 2:
 Select Admin and then, select 
IAM
.
Step 3:
 On the IAM screen, select the
Connections
 tab from the left panel.
Step 4:
 Select the
Add New
 drop-down menu.
Step 5:
 Select the
Add a Connection
.
Step 6:
 Select the Technology Category as
Cloud Provider
.
Step 7:
 Select
GCP
.
Step 8:
 Enter the
Project Id
 and
Service Key
 from the GCP account referred to in the previous section.
Step 9:
 Validate your credentials by selecting
Test connection
.
Step 10:
 Once the connection is successful, select
Add
 to create a connection.
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Configuring GCP Monitor

Prerequisite: Create a Service Account and assign it the required roles or the permissions outlined within each role (applies to all metric sets).:
  • Monitoring Viewer:
    • monitoring.metricDescriptors.list
    • monitoring.timeSeries.list
  • Compute Viewer:
    • compute.instances.get
    • compute.instances.list 
Use the following template to set these roles: 
metricbeat.modules:
- module: gcp
 period: 900s
 continuous: true
 project_id: "<project-id>"
 credentials_file_path: "<credentials-path>"
 exclude_labels: false
 metricsets:
   - metrics
 metrics:
   - service: gke
     service_metric_prefix: kubernetes.io/
     metric_types:
     - "container/cpu/core_usage_time"
     - "container/cpu/limit_cores"
     - "container/cpu/limit_utilization"
     - "container/cpu/request_cores"
     - "container/cpu/request_utilization"
     - "container/memory/limit_bytes"
     - "container/memory/limit_utilization"
     - "container/memory/page_fault_count"
     - "container/memory/request_bytes"
     - "container/memory/request_utilization"
     - "container/memory/used_bytes"
This template generates a
YAML
configuration that includes the query used to retrieve CPU and memory metrics, which is then added to
CMS
.:
metricbeat.modules:
- module: gcp
 period: 24h
 continuous: true
 exclude_labels: false
 metricsets:
   - metrics
 metrics:
   - service: gke
     service_metric_prefix: kubernetes.io/
     aligner: ALIGN_MAX
     metric_types:
     - "container/cpu/limit_cores",
           - "container/cpu/limit_utilization",
           - "container/cpu/request_cores",
           - "container/cpu/request_utilization",
           - "container/memory/limit_bytes",
           - "container/memory/request_bytes",
           - "container/memory/used_bytes",
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