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Checks that GCP Bigtable CPU utilization is being monitored.

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About

When you connect Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to DSALTA, the platform retrieves the list of resources in your environment using read-only API access. DSALTA then checks whether this configuration is in place. If it is not, DSALTA activates this check so you can remediate it.

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Why This Matters

Infrastructure that is not monitored fails silently until it impacts users. Tracking key metrics — and alerting when they cross a threshold — lets you act before a small issue becomes an outage. Proactive monitoring is required by SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

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How to Fix

Before you begin
  • Ensure you have the Monitoring Editor role on the GCP project.
  • Confirm that you have Bigtable resources for which you want to create the alert.
Create the Cloud Monitoring alert
  1. Sign in to the Google Cloud Console and navigate to Monitoring → Alerting.
  2. Click Create policy, then Add condition.
  3. Select the bigtable.googleapis.com/cluster/cpu_load metric for your Bigtable resource.
  4. Configure the threshold to alert when CPU load exceeds 0.7 (70%), and set the alignment and evaluation window.
  5. Under Notifications, select or create a notification channel (email, Slack, or PagerDuty).
  6. Name the alerting policy and click Create policy.
Once the alerting policy is active for bigtable.googleapis.com/cluster/cpu_load, DSALTA retrieves the change on the next sync and sets the check status to Passing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This check runs automatically every 24 hours while the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration is connected. You can also trigger a manual sync from Integrations in the sidebar.
A failing check appears in your Data Library → Tests dashboard. Work through the steps above; once the underlying configuration is fixed, the status updates automatically on the next sync.
Yes. If it does not apply to your environment, mark it as Not Applicable with a justification. The exclusion is documented for auditors.
No. DSALTA uses read-only API access and never modifies, creates, or deletes resources. All remediation is performed by your team directly in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).