Google Cloud Firebase database monitoring integration

Use Site24x7 to monitor your Google Cloud Firebase database in order to maintain optimal performance, ensure availability, plan for scalability, and facilitate effective troubleshooting. Site24x7's Google Cloud Firebase database monitor provides valuable insights into the health and performance of your database, allowing you to make informed decisions and take proactive measures to optimize your application.

 

Table of contents

• Setup and configuration
• Polling frequency
• Supported metrics
• Threshold configuration
• IT Automation
• Configuration Rules
• Summary
• Configuration Details
• Reports

 

Setup and configuration

• Adding Google Firebase Database while configuring a new Google Cloud monitor
  

  If you have not configured a Google Cloud monitor yet, add one by following the steps below:

  1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
  2. Go to Cloud > GCP > Add GCP Monitor or Admin > Cloud Monitoring > Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
  3. Provide a unique display name for identification purposes.
  4. Upload a service account JSON file to authenticate Site24x7 for performing resource discovery.
  5. Select Firebase Database from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list.
  6. Select existing Notification Profiles, User Alerts Groups, Tags, and IT Automation Templates or add new ones. You can also integrate Site24x7's alarms with your preferred third-party service.
  7. Click Start GCP Monitoring.
• Adding Google Firebase Database to an existing Google Cloud monitor
  

  If you already have a Google Cloud monitor configured for the service account, you can add Google Firebase Database by following the steps below:

  1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
  2. Go to Cloud > GCP and select your GCP monitor.
  3. Click the hamburger icon next to Service View and select Edit, which brings you to the Edit GCP Monitor page.
  4. On the Edit GCP Monitor page, select Firebase Database from the Select the Resources for Monitoring list and click Save.
  5. After successful configuration, go to Cloud > GCP > Firebase Database. Now you can view the discovered Firebase Database resources.

 

Polling frequency

Site24x7's Google Firebase Database monitor collects metrics data every minute and the statuses of your Google Firebase Database resources every 5 minutes.

 

Supported metrics

Metric name	Description	Statistic	Unit
Database Load	The fraction of the database load, grouped by the type	Average	Count
Saved Bytes	The total data persisted to the disk	Total	Bytes
Responses Sent	The number of responses sent or shown to clients	Total	Count
I/O Utilization	The amount of input/output (I/O) capacity used	Total	Count
Connections	The number of active connections	Total	Count
API Hits	The number of database hits, grouped by the respective type	Total	Count
Broadcast Load	The time taken to prepare and send broadcasts to clients	Average	Count
HTTPS Requests Received	The total number of HTTPS requests received	Total	Count
Bytes Sent Monthly	The size of data sent in a month	Total	Bytes
Bytes Sent Limit	The monthly network limit for the Firebase database	Total	Bytes
Total Billed Bytes	The outgoing bandwidth used by the database, including the encryption and protocol overhead	Total	Bytes
Payload and Protocol Bytes Sent	The outgoing bandwidth used by the database without the encryption overhead	Total	Bytes
Payload Bytes Sent	The outgoing bandwidth used by the database without the encryption or protocol overhead	Total	Bytes
Rule Evaluations	The number of Firebase Realtime Database Security Rules evaluations performed in response to write and read requests	Total	Count
Bytes Stored Limit	The storage limit for the Firebase database	Average	Bytes
Bytes Stored	The size of the Firebase database storage	Average	Bytes

 

Threshold configuration

• Global configuration
  1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to the Admin section on the left navigation pane.
  2. Select Configuration Profiles from the left pane and select Threshold and Availability from the drop-down menu.
  3. Click Add Threshold Profile in the top-right corner.
  4. For Monitor Type, select Firebase Database.
  5. Now you can set the threshold values for the metrics listed above.
• Monitor-level configuration
  1. In the Site24x7 web client, go to Cloud > GCP > Firebase Database.
  2. Select a resource you would like to set a threshold for, then click the hamburger icon .
  3. Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit Firebase Database Monitor page.
  4. You can set the threshold values for the metrics with the Threshold and Availability option.
  5. You can also configure IT Automation at the attribute level.

 

IT Automation

Site24x7 offers a set of exclusive IT Automation tools that automatically resolve performance degradation issues. These tools react to events proactively rather than waiting for manual intervention. The IT Automation tools automate repetitive tasks and automatically remediate threshold breaches. The alarm engine continually evaluates system events for which thresholds are set and executes the mapped automation when there is a breach.

How to configure IT Automation for a monitor

 

Configuration Rules

Editing multiple monitors to associate different monitor groups or add a different tag can be a tedious process. With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Also, Site24x7 allows you to create custom rules to track configuration changes continuously and achieve the ideal configuration settings.

How to add Configuration Rules

 

Summary

The Summary tab will give you the performance data organized by time for the metrics listed above. To view the summary:

1. Go to Cloud > GCP > Firebase Database.
2. Select a resource.
3. Click the Summary tab.

 

Configuration Details

The Configuration Details tab provides details on the configurations of application instances. To get the configuration details:

1. Go to Cloud > GCP > Firebase Database.
2. Select a resource.
3. Click the Configuration Details tab.

 

Reports

Gain in-depth data about the various parameters of your monitored resources and accentuate your service performance using our insightful reports.

To view reports for a Google Firebase Database resource:

1. Go to the Reports section on the left navigation pane.
2. Select Firebase Database from the menu on the left.
3. You can find the Availability Summary Report, Performance Report, and Inventory Report for one selected monitor. Or you can get the Summary Report, Availability Summary Report, Health Trend Report, and Performance Report for all the Google Firebase Database monitors.

You can also get reports from the Summary tab of the Google Firebase Database monitor:

1. Click the Summary tab.
2. Get the Availability Summary Report of the monitor by clicking Availability.
3. You can also find the Performance Report of the monitor by clicking any chart title.

 

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