Question

A company runs 12 separate Google Cloud projects, one per business unit, each with its own Compute Engine and Cloud SQL workloads. The central SRE team needs a single place to build dashboards and alerting policies that span metrics from all 12 projects, without duplicating configuration in each project. They also want to keep each project's IAM and billing independent. What is the recommended approach?

Accepted Answer

Create a metrics scope in a dedicated scoping project and add all 12 projects as monitored projects, then build dashboards and alerts from that scoping project.

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Configure a log sink in each project that exports metrics to a central BigQuery dataset and build dashboards from BigQuery.

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Move all 12 projects under a single parent project so their metrics are automatically merged into one monitoring view.

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Enable a Cloud Monitoring workspace in each project and manually replicate the same dashboards and alert policies across all 12.