Cloud Hub can display data for a selected Google Cloud project or App Hub application.
Viewing data by project provides many useful insights. However, when you view data for a selected Google Cloud project, your don't have a clear view of relationships that resources might have across other projects.
By organizing your resources as App Hub applications, you can better understand resource interactions and analyze, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot in an application-centric way.
The views that are available on a Cloud Hub page depend on the type of data that you are viewing.
Project views
To view data for a project, select the project from the project picker in the toolbar. You must have the permissions required to view the data in the selected project.
Application views
To view data for an App Hub application, from the project picker in the toolbar, select the app-enabled folder that contains the application.
An app-enabled folder, is a folder in the in the Google Cloud resource hierarchy that is configured for application management. When you enable application management, the enablement process creates a management project for the folder and enables APIs required for application management on the management project.
After you have configured an app-enabled folder, you can create your applications from existing Google Cloud resources using App Hub or use Application Design Center to design and deploy new Google Cloud resources, which automatically provision App Hub applications.
To learn more about setup tasks for application views, see Set up application management.
To learn about required permissions, see Access control with IAM.
Support for application and project views
The following table shows which types of views are available for each main section of Cloud Hub. The Required APIs column includes labels to help you identify APIs that might be enabled already:
- If you configured enable application management, some APIs are already enabled on the management project.
- Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring APIs are enabled by default when you create a project.
| Page | Required APIs | View application data | View project data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home |
This page displays a subset of data from other Cloud Hub pages. It will display data for APIs that are enabled for the other pages. |
Yes | Yes |
| Deployments |
App Hub, Application Design Center For app-enabled folders, these APIs are automatically enabled on the management project |
Yes | No |
| Health & troubleshooting |
App Hub, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, Error Reporting, Personalized Service Health, Cloud Asset Inventory For app-enabled folders, these APIs are automatically enabled on the management project App Hub is only required to view data by application. |
Yes | Yes |
| Maintenance | Unified Maintenance Capacity Planner is also required for users in the Capacity Planner private preview |
No | Yes |
| Quotas & reservations | Cloud Quotas, Compute Engine |
No | Yes |
| Support | Cloud Customer Care | No | Yes |
If you navigate between pages in Cloud Hub, the selected project or application persists if both pages support that type of view. If you want to review data for multiple applications or projects, consider using a dedicated browser tab for each application or project that you want to view.