Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

GCP polling

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted interacts with the GCP API, using API polling to retrieve status, performance metrics, and other relevant data about monitored resources from the GCP at specified intervals.

By default, API polling fetches metrics and status updates for monitored resources every 5 minutes. You can adjust the polling frequency in the Edit Account workflow.

Required APIs

See Configure Google Cloud Platform for monitoring.

  • Cloud DNS API
  • Cloud Resource Manager API
  • Compute Engine API
  • CloudMonitoring API
  • Network Management API
  • Network Services API

GCP polling limits

GCP imposes rate limits on its API to prevent overloading its services. These limits vary based on the specific GCP service, such as Compute Engine or Cloud Storage.

The GCP Compute Engine API may have a limit for requests per minute and individual resources may have their own rate-limiting policies based on the API call type. Pricing depends on the GCP pricing policy. See Cloud Monitoring pricing summary for details.

If the rate limit is exceeded, GCP will return an error response indicating the limit has been breached. View Compute Engine API quotas for more information.