Cloudability Set up GCP Monitoring Agent for rightsizing
In order for Cloudability to utilize additional utilization metrics such as memory, you will need to configure the GCP Monitoring Agent. Cloudability supports both the Ops Agent and the Legacy Monitoring Agent. The following instructions detail ways on how to configure each agent:
- Prerequisites
To install the agent, ensure that all conditions are met.
Installing the Ops Agent on individual VMs
Installing the Legacy Cloud Monitoring agent on individual VMs
- Install the agent using the command line
To install the agent using the command line, use the following instructions.
- Install the agent using the Google Cloud console
You can install the agent on one or more Compute Engine VMs from the pre-configured Monitoring VM Instances dashboard.