Create Credentials File

In the Google Cloud console, go to Menu menu > IAM & Admin > Service Accounts. Go to Service Accounts.
Select your service account (or create a new one).
- Ensure that the service account has “Monitoring Viewer” permissions to collect GCP metrics.
Click Keys > Add key > Create new key.
Select JSON, then click Create. ...
Click Close.

Create Kubernetes Secret

Create a Kubernetes secret from the credentials file.

kubectl create secret generic kfuse-sd-secret --from-file=<credentials json file> -n kfuse

Configure Kloudfuse to start collecting metrics.

Update the helm values with the following configuration. Update the corresponding projectId of the GCP account and update the typePrefixes to collect the metrics from relevant services of GCP as described here.

kfuse-cloud-exporter:
  Prometheus-stackdriver-exporter:
    enabled: true
    stackdriver:
      httpTimeout: 30s
      maxRetries: 3
      ## gcp project id
      projectId: "YOUR PROJECT ID"
      ## create this secret with access credentials to gcp account
      serviceAccountSecret: kfuse-sd-secret
      metrics:
        typePrefixes: "compute.googleapis.com"

External

GCP Metrics collection

Create Credentials File

Create Kubernetes Secret

Configure Kloudfuse to start collecting metrics.

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