Google Cloud Guidance Report
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Site24x7's Google Cloud Guidance Report offers critical insights to fine-tune your cloud resources and identifies bottlenecks, optimize configurations, and ensure peak performance for your Google Cloud setup by implementing the recommendations provided in Guidance Report.
Where can I view the Guidance Report
You can view the Guidance report for Google Cloud by logging into Site24x7 and then navigating to Cloud in the left navigation pane > GCP > your monitor name > Guidance Report.
List of Google Cloud services covered under Guidance Report
The supported Google services covered under Guidance Report are:
Cloud SQL
1. Enable Automated Backups (Priority: High)
Category:
Reliability
Baseline:
Automated backups ensure the protection of your valuable data by creating regular, scheduled backups of your Cloud SQL databases. In case of accidental data loss, database corruption, or other unforeseen issues, you can easily restore your data to the previous state.
Recommendation:
In the Backups section, check whether Automated Backups are enabled.
Compute Engine - VM
1. Underutilized Compute instance (Priority: Moderate)
Baseline:
Checks the resource utilization of Google Compute Engine instances and labels them as underutilized, if the CPU usage is less than 2% for the past 48 hours.
Recommendation:
For Google Compute Engine, you are billed based on the instance type and the number of consumed hours. You can lower your costs by identifying and stopping under utilized instances. In addition, Site24x7's Guidance Report also shows the Current Machine Type and recommend the desired instance type (Suggested Machine Type) that you can downgrade to, for better cost cutting.
2. High utilized Compute instance (Priority: High)
Baseline:
Checks the performance counters for GCP Compute and identifies instances that appear to be highly utilized.
Description:
A Compute instance is deemed as overutilized if it meets the following criteria:
- The average daily CPU usage for the Compute instance is more than 90% for the last seven days.
- The average daily memory utilization for the Compute instance is more than 90% for the last seven days (applicable only if you've deployed our agent on the Compute instance).
Recommendation:
Consider changing the instance size or add the instance to an autoscaling group.
Compute Engine - Disks
1. Unattached Disks (Priority: Moderate)
Baseline:
Check Compute Engine disk configuration for the associated instance ID.
Description:
Compute Engine disks can persist independently even after instance termination or after you explicitly unmount and detach the volume from the instance. As you may know, unattached volumes are still charged based on the provisioned storage and for input/output operations per second (IOPS).
Recommendation:
Associate the configured Compute Engine disks with an active instance or delete the disk.