gke/Cluster Level Monitoring Configuration Enabled

Verifies that monitoring is enabled at the GKE cluster level.

Product: Google Kubernetes Engine
Step Type: AUTOMATED STEP

Description

Confirms that the GKE cluster configuration explicitly enables monitoring. Even if the project has the Cloud Monitoring API enabled and other settings are correct, monitoring won’t be collected if cluster-level monitoring is disabled .

Failure Reason

The monitoring health check failed because cluster-level monitoring is not enabled.

Failure Remediation

Enable cluster-level monitoring for the Kubernetes cluster. This can be done through the Google Cloud Console or GKE-specific tools. See instructions: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/observability

Success Reason

Cluster-level monitoring is enabled for the cluster.