Check status information on services of Google Cloud

Question

I want to check the status of services that are part of Google Cloud respectively from all this services: Service health GCP. I am new to GCP and was wondering how to check it with for example Cloud Functions etc. Can someone give me any advice?

Answer 1

I want to check the status of services ...

You can determine the status of a service by processing the health data. This is not as simple as it might appear as there is no indicator for a service's health at this instant, only historical data of events.

Google Cloud publishes the JSON schema for Google Cloud Service Health:

Google Cloud Service Health JSON Schema

Example:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "id": "/",
  "title": "Incidents",
  "type": "array",
  "description": "Incident in the public status dashboard",
  "items": {
    ...

You can fetch the health data from this endpoint:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents.json

Example data:

[
  {
    "id": "yatPQDmQ5uXqb6PzwanU",
    "number": "13941430952028707728",
    "begin": "2022-04-23T02:10:00+00:00",
    "created": "2022-04-23T16:27:43+00:00",
    "end": "2022-04-23T17:21:00+00:00",
    "modified": "2022-04-25T20:06:04+00:00",
    "external_desc": "Global: Cloud Monitoring Metrics may be unavailable or underreported for Cloud Pub/Sub",
    "updates": [
      {
        "created": "2022-04-25T20:05:32+00:00",
        "modified": "2022-04-25T20:05:32+00:00",
        "when": "2022-04-25T20:05:32+00:00",
        "text": "We apologize for the inconvenience this service ...

Answer 2

You need to use Creating a service-level indicator

If you create custom services, then you must also create service-level objectives (SLOs) for them. There are no pre-defined SLOs for custom services.

You can also create custom SLOs for automatically detected services, but that is less common.

SLOs are built on top of metrics that measure performance and are used as service-level indicators (SLIs). For custom SLOs, you must identify the metrics you want to use in your SLIs.

SLO monitoring

Automatically infer or custom define service-level objectives (SLOs) for applications and get alerted when SLO violations occur.