FortiMonitor offers native integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enabling FortiMonitor to ingest your GCP monitoring data. Also, FortiMonitor can perform automatic discovery and monitoring of instances within your GCP account. This is configurable by service type and region, and can also be fully customized using your GCP tags.

GCP data should be used as an augmentation of, not a replacement for, the data obtained by the FortiMonitor server agent and external monitoring. The server agent can provide more detailed and accurate data across any OS distribution or application you may be running on your compute instance. Also, our external monitoring ensures you are getting the full picture of your current operating environment as well as a view into what your customers are experiencing.

Connecting FortiMonitor and GCP

To grant FortiMonitor access to your GCP data, you will need to create an external account role within your GCP account that is tied to FortiMonitor's External GCP Account.

1. From the navigation menu, click Add. The Infrastructure and Resource Catalog will be displayed.

2. Select Google Cloud Platform.

3. Enter an a name for the integration.

4. Follow the instructions in the Control Panel.

5. Once you've obtained your Service Account key, select Verify Connection.

6. Once your key has been validated, you can configure your monitoring settings.

   • Services: Select the GCP services you'd like to monitor. It's better to only select the ones you're using, otherwise, it uses vital API calls.

   • Filter Instances by Tag: You can choose to only import instances that match the GCP tag filters you define.

   • Regions: Only select the regions you operate in, otherwise, it uses vital API calls

   • Options - Import Tags: Enabling tag import will pull in your GCP tags with your GCP instances. You have the option to import only the Value portion of the GCP tag or the entire GCP key-value pair as a single string tag.

   • Options - Import GCP tags as FortiMonitor Attributes: GCP tags will be imported as key-value pairs (attributes within FortiMonitor).

   • Options - Routinely scan for new instances: every 20 minutes, we'll look for new instances in your account and will begin monitoring them assuming they meet your filter criteria. Instances using the FortiMonitor agent can be monitored immediately if you install the agent on boot.

   • Options - Apply Monitoring Policies: Apply a monitoring policy to the imported GCP instances.

   • Options - Destination Group: any time instances are imported, they'll be placed in this group in the control panel. This is great for setting default values which are inherited from their parent group as well as apply default templates.

   • Options - Template: apply a Template to every instance that's imported

7. Click Complete Integration. We'll start pulling in your instances that meet your filter criteria and begin monitoring them.

GCP integrations

The following GCP integrations are supported:

• GCP Compute Engine

• GCP Router

• GCP Cloud Load Balancing