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Published inJun 2020
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Eric Salituro
Eric Salituro
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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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Configuring a Google Stackdriver data source

Our last stop on our tour of cloud providers is with another cloud heavyweight: Google Cloud Platform and its Stackdriver (now called Google Operations) logging service. We'll go through the procedure to connect the Google Stackdriver data source. The process for connecting a local data source with Stackdriver involves only a few steps:

  1. Enable the relevant monitoring APIs.
  2. Create a service account with appropriate permissions.
  3. Generate a JWT token.
  4. Load the JWT token into the Google Stackdriver data source configuration.

To get started, log into 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 Google Cloud APIs

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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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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