Importable sample Cloud Monitoring Dashboards

[markmandel]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have great default dashboards for prometheus/grafana. Now that the Stackdriver API is live, we can do the same for Stackdriver as well!

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/cloud-monitoring-dashboards-using-an-api

Describe the solution you'd like

I'm thinking Terraform scripts to install the dashboards would be the best way to go.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/google/r/monitoring_dashboard.html

Describe alternatives you've considered

You could do it in a shell script with gcloud, but that seems less portable.

Additional context

• https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/v1/projects.dashboards#resource:-dashboard
• https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/google/r/monitoring_dashboard.html

[aLekSer]

I have a plan how to accomplish this:

1. Create all necessary Graphs on Stackdriver Monitorring Dashboard similar to what we have now on Grafana.
2. Transform them to json and copy to a terraform configurations
3. Follow the pattern found in official Terraform provider docs: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/google/r/monitoring_dashboard.html
4. Merge to existent GKE Terraform config or create a separate one. Will start with latter.
5. Add documentation how to use it
6. Add Make target for this feature

[markmandel]

Shame we can't do some kind of transform to Grafana dashboards -> stackdriver.

(That would be a neat project)

[aLekSer]

Well, that sounds like a great feature or a great open source project. When I understand some similarities and mappings while doing this ticket I will let you know if this is trivial to do. I assume there are no more than 3 typical types of dashboards we are using currently in Grafana.

[aLekSer]

So far dealing with the following error:

Error: Error creating Dashboard: googleapi: Error 400: Field gridLayout.widget[0].xyChart.dataSets[0].timeSeriesQuery.timeSeriesFilter.aggregation.crossSeriesReducer has an invalid value: if group-by fields are specified, a crossSeriesReducer must be specified.

I have copied the output of GCloud Monitoring API Dashboards List as it is stated to be done here: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/google/r/monitoring_dashboard.html

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[markmandel]

I still think we should do this - although it's now "Cloud Monitoring". https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/monitoring-dashboard-samples has some great howtos with samples.

[markmandel]

wait... what? https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/import-grafana-dashboards