View application and resource health

The Health & troubleshooting page lets you review the health of your your services and applications.

  • View open alerts based on alerting policies that you set up in Cloud Monitoring. When the conditions of an alert policy are met, Monitoring refers to the open alert as an incident.
  • View active Google Cloud incidents. These incidents are for Google Cloud service outages or degradations.
  • View metrics about the health and performance of Google Cloud resources such as utilization, latency, or errors.

You can view health data for a selected project or App Hub application.

  • In the project view, you can view health data for active Google Cloud products in the selected project. The following products are supported:
    • Compute Engine
    • Google Kubernetes Engine
    • Cloud Run
    • Cloud Storage
    • Cloud Run functions
    • Cloud SQL
  • In the application view, you can view health data for services and workloads in the selected application.

Before you begin

To view data for App Hub applications, ensure that the following steps are complete:

  1. Set up App Hub for an app-enabled folder and create your applications. Learn about app-enabled folders.

  2. Set up aggregation of logs, metrics, and traces for your applications.

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to view health data for applications and resources, ask your administrator to grant you the following IAM roles on the project (project view) or management project in the app-enabled folder (application view):

For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

The Monitoring Viewer and Service Health Viewer roles are included in the Cloud Hub Operator (roles/cloudhub.operator) role.

If you want to make changes based on your analysis, you might need additional permissions or you might need to coordinate with a member of your organization who has the required permissions. For example, changing the configuration of a GKE cluster requires the appropriate GKE permissions.

View health and troubleshooting information

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Health & troubleshooting page,

    Go to Health & troubleshooting

  2. Select the project or application that you want to view:

    • To view data for a project, select the project from the project picker in the toolbar.
    • To view data for an application, select an app-enabled folder from the project picker in the toolbar. If you don't know which folder to select, then ask your administrator.

  3. From the time range selector, choose a time range to view. By default, the page displays alerts, Google Cloud incidents, and health data for the last hour.

    The page displays the following information for the selected time range:

    • Open alerts: displays the total number of open alerts for alert policies in a selected project or associated with a selected application. To view the alerts in Monitoring, click View alerts. For details about viewing alerts, which Monitoring calls incidents, see Incidents for metric-based alerting policies.
    • Google Cloud incidents: displays The total number of Google Cloud incidents for the selected project or application. To view the incidents in Personalized Service Health, click View incidents. Learn more about viewing incidents in Service Health.
    • Google Cloud products (project view): displays open alerts and Service Health events, including incidents, for each active Google Cloud product in the selected project. Charts with key health data for the selected product are displayed below the product list.
    • Services and workloads (application view): displays open alerts and Service Health events, including incidents, for each active Google Cloud service or workload in the application. Charts with key health data for the selected service or workload are displayed below the list of service and workloads.

  4. To view details for a listed product, service, or workload, click its name in the list. You can use the following options to help you understand events that occurred or troubleshoot issues.

    • Review the charts for the selected product, service or workload. Each chart shows health metrics during the selected time period.

      Charts also display relevant events. There are several event types:

      • Cloud Monitoring alert events.
      • Service Health events
      • Product-specific events

      By default, charts show recommended events, but you can select the events you want to view by using the Annotations selector at the top of the page. To learn more about showing and hiding events on a chart, see Show events on a dashboard.

      You can interact with the charts the same way you interact with other Monitoring charts. Learn about exploring chart data.

    • To view open alerts for a product, service, or workload, click the link in the Alerts column.

    • To view Google Cloud relevant incidents that for a product, service, or workload, click the link in the Google Cloud Incidents column.

    • To view review additional details for a product in the project view, click View details. Each product provides additional observability data, logs, and other information to help you diagnose and troubleshoot issues.

    • To open details for an application workload or service in Monitoring, click View dashboard. The Application monitoring page displays the dashboard for the workload or service.

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