Google App Engine monitoring integration

Monitor your Google Cloud App Engine to keep track of business critical metrics like CPU Utilization, memory usage, number of live threads, and many more. Metrics like these are critical to optimize your Cloud service for both performance and cost aspects. Learn more about our Google Cloud App Engine monitoring integration.

Setup and configuration

Adding Google App Engine 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 App Engine 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 App Engine to an existing Google Cloud monitor

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

Note

It will take approximately 5 minutes to discover new GCP resources.

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Google App Engine monitor collects metrics data every minute and the statuses of your Google App Engine resources every 5 minutes.

Supported metrics

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Autoscaling Metrics Utilization Capacity	Product of utilization capacity and the total number of serving Virtual Machines (VMs)	Average	Count
Autoscaling Metrics Current Utilization	The total utilization of a specified metric by all the active serving Virtual Machines (VMs)	Total	Count
Connections	The number of active connections in the App Engine flexible environment	Total	Count
Reserved Cores	The total number of CPU cores allocated to an App Engine flexible environment instance	Total	Count
Flex CPU utilization	The share of CPU actually utilized by the App Engine flexible environment from the totally allocated CPU utilization share	Average	Percentage
Disk Bytes Read	The amount of data read by an App Engine flexible instance	Total	Bytes
Disk Bytes Written	The amount of data written by an App Engine flexible instance	Total	Bytes
Instance Connections Current	The total number of active connections in an App Engine flexible environment	Total	Bytes
Instance CPU utilization	The share of CPU actually utilized by the App Engine flexible environment instance from the totally allocated CPU utilization share	Average	Percentage
Memory Usage	The total memory used	Total	Bytes
Websocket Average Duration	The average number of websocket requests for the particular App Engine Flexible instance	Average	Count
Network Bytes Received	The total number of incoming network bytes in the App Engine Flexible Environment	Total	Bytes
Network Bytes Sent	The total number of outgoing network bytes from the App Engine Flexible Environment	Total	Bytes
Interception Count	The average count of interceptions done to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks	Average	Count
Quota Denial Count	The average count of requests that failed due to the application exceeding its quota	Average	Count
Response Count	The average number of HTTP response count	Average	Count
Response Latency	The average latency of the HTTP responses	Average	Milliseconds
Response Count by Style	The average number of HTTP responses segregated by style	Average	Count
MemCache Utilization	The average MemCache utilization in one hundredth of MemCache compute unit	Average	Count
Hit Ratio	The percentage of successful hits out of all MemCache operations	Average	Percentage
MemCache Operations	The average number of MemCache key operations segregated by command and status	Average	Count
MemCache Received Bytes	The average number of bytes received by the application from MemCache API segregated by status and commands	Average	Bytes
MemCache Sent Bytes	The average number of bytes sent from the application from MemCache API segregated by status and commands	Average	Bytes
Used Cache Size	The total size of Cache	Total	Bytes
Estimated Instance Count	The average estimated number of instances that the customer will be charged for	Average	Count
CPU Megacycles	The average CPU usage calculated in terms of Megacycles	Average	Count
System CPU Utilization	The average CPU utilization cumulated over all active instances	Average	Percentage
Instance Count	The total number of instances available	Total	Count
Received Bytes	The average amount of incoming network data	Average	Bytes
Sent Bytes	The average amount of outgoing network data	Average	Bytes

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 App Engine.
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 > App Engine.
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 App Engine 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 > App Engine.
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 > App Engine.
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 App Engine resource:

Go to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
Select App Engine 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 App Engine monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Google App Engine 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.