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Eric Salituro
Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Configuring a GCM data source

Our last stop on our tour of cloud providers is GCP and its GCM service. We’ll go through the procedure to connect the GCM data source. The process for connecting a local data source with GCM involves only a few steps:

  1. Enable the relevant monitoring APIs.
  2. Create a service account with appropriate permissions.
  3. Generate a JSON Web Token (JWT).
  4. Load the JWT into the GCM data source configuration.

To get started, log in to your Google Cloud console and select the appropriate project. It is in this project that we’ll define our service account. This will be the only one our data source can access. You will need to create a separate data source for each GCP project you want to monitor.

Enabling a Google Cloud API

After selecting your project, use the left-hand menu to navigate to APIs & Services. Then, follow these steps:

  1. Select + Enable APIs and Services.
  2. Use the search box to locate Stackdriver...
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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