Connect Google Cloud Monitoring to All Quiet

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Published: Friday, 20 October 2023

😎 In under 5 min: Connect Your Google Cloud Monitoring to All Quiet.

Introduction

You'll connect your Google Cloud Monitoring in under 4min to All Quiet.

Step 1: Create Your Google Cloud Monitoring Integration on All Quiet

Login into your All Quiet account.

Create Google Cloud Monitoring Integration

  1. Click on Integrations to navigate to the integrations page.
  2. Click on "Create New Integration" to create a new integration.
Create Google Cloud Monitoring Integration
  1. Enter a display name for your integration, e.g. "Google Cloud Monitoring".
  2. Select a team.
  3. Select "Google Cloud Monitoring" as the type.
  4. Click "Create integration".
Configure Google Cloud Monitoring Integration

Copy Webhook URL

  1. After successfully creating your Google Cloud Monitoring integration, make sure to copy the webhook URL. You'll need it later when setting up your notification channel in Google Cloud Monitoring.
Copy Webhook URL

Step 2: Setup Your Azure Monitor

Login into your Google Cloud Console.

Create Notification Channel

  1. Navigate to the "Monitoring" section of your Google Cloud Console.
  2. Within the "Monitoring" section, choose the "Alerting" option, as highlighted. You can also search within your Google Cloud Console for "Alerting".
  3. To modify notification settings, click on the "EDIT NOTIFICATION CHANNELS" button.
  1. Click "ADD NEW" in the Webhooks section to create a new Webhook to All Quiet.
  1. Enter the Webhook URL of step 1.2
  2. Enter a Display Name for your notification channel, e.g. "All Quiet".
  3. Click "TEST CONNECTION" to send a test payload to the All Quiet webhook.
  4. When the test notification was sent successfully, click "SAVE" to create the channel.

Configure Alerting Policies

  1. To utilize your new 'All Quiet' notification channel, either select an existing alerting policy or create a new one. Click on "Notifications and name", followed by "Notification Channels".
  2. Select 'All Quiet' from your list of notification channels.
  3. Ensure you check "Notify on incident closure" to enable automatic resolution of incidents in 'All Quiet'.

Step 3: Test Your Google Cloud Monitoring Integration

You're almost done. 🥳 The next steps are merely there to verify if everything's setup correctly!

Navigate back to All Quiet and to your Webhook that you've created in 1.1

  1. Click Reload to load your most recent payloads.
  2. Click ← Select to load the test payload from the previous step.
  3. Observe how the mapping transforms the Google Cloud Monitoring payload into an All Quiet incident.
Test All Quiet Webhook

Congratulations! 🥳

By connecting Google Cloud Monitoring to All Quiet, you've enhanced your incident management workflow with powerful monitoring capabilities and simplified incident escalation & management.

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