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Google Spanner

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Overview

Google Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable.

Get metrics from Google Spanner to:

  • Visualize the performance of your Spanner databases.
  • Correlate the performance of your Spanner databases with your applications.

Setup

Metric collection

Installation

If you haven’t already, set up the Google Cloud Platform integration first. There are no other installation steps.

Log collection

Google Cloud Spanner logs are collected with Stackdriver and sent to a Cloud pub/sub with an HTTP push forwarder. If you haven’t already, set up a Cloud pub/sub with an HTTP push forwarder.

Once this is done, export your Google Cloud Spanner logs from Stackdriver to the pub/sub:

  1. Go to the Stackdriver page and filter Google Cloud Spanner logs.
  2. Click Create Export and name the sink accordingly.

  3. Choose “Cloud Pub/Sub” as the destination and select the pub/sub that was created for that purpose. Note: The pub/sub can be located in a different project.

    Export Google Cloud Spanner Logs to Pub Sub

  4. Click Create and wait for the confirmation message to show up.

Data Collected

Metrics

gcp.spanner.api.received_bytes_count
(gauge)		Uncompressed request bytes received by Cloud Spanner.
Shown as byte
gcp.spanner.api.request_count
(rate)		Rate of Cloud Spanner API requests.
Shown as request
gcp.spanner.api.request_latencies.avg
(gauge)		Average server request latencies for a database.
Shown as second
gcp.spanner.api.request_latencies.samplecount
(gauge)		Sample count of server request latencies for a database.
Shown as second
gcp.spanner.api.request_latencies.sumsqdev
(gauge)		Sum of Squared Deviation of server request latencies for a database.
Shown as second
gcp.spanner.api.sent_bytes_count
(gauge)		Uncompressed response bytes sent by Cloud Spanner.
Shown as byte
gcp.spanner.instance.cpu.utilization
(gauge)		Utilization of provisioned CPU, between 0 and 1.
Shown as fraction
gcp.spanner.instance.node_count
(gauge)		Total number of nodes.
Shown as node
gcp.spanner.instance.session_count
(gauge)		Number of sessions in use.
Shown as session
gcp.spanner.instance.storage.used_bytes
(gauge)		Storage used in bytes.
Shown as byte

Events

The Google Cloud Spanner integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The Google Cloud Spanner integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.

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