Question

Your organization runs a customer-facing application split across three separate GCP projects: 'frontend-prod', 'backend-prod', and 'data-prod'. The SRE team wants a single Cloud Monitoring dashboard that displays latency and error-rate charts combining metrics from all three projects, without duplicating dashboards or copying metric data. What is the recommended approach?

Accepted Answer

Create a metrics scope in a dedicated scoping project and add the three projects as monitored projects, then build the dashboard in that scoping project.

Answer

Export metrics from each project to BigQuery and build the dashboard using a Looker Studio data source that joins the three datasets.

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Configure a log sink in each project that routes metric data to a central project, then create log-based metrics for the dashboard.

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Enable a VPC Service Controls perimeter around the three projects so their metrics automatically appear in one shared Monitoring workspace.