GCP Infrastructure Monitors

The GCP Infrastructure Monitors section helps you monitor critical metrics and configurations across your GCP workloads to ensure high availability, system integrity, and compliance with regulatory standards.

Sprinto integrates with Google Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver) to automatically detect key infrastructure metrics and misconfigurations. This allows your team to receive alerts and resolve issues before they escalate into compliance failures.

What does Sprinto monitor?

Monitors and How to Resolve Them

1. Monitor GCP Cloud SQL CPU and Memory Usage

• Go to GCP Console > Monitoring > Metrics Explorer
• Select resource type: Cloud SQL Database
• Choose metrics:
  • database/cpu/utilization
  • database/memory/utilization
• Set alerting policies based on thresholds
• Upload metric graphs and alert rules as evidence

2. Monitor Freeable Storage on Cloud SQL

• Same steps as above
• Metric: database/disk/bytes_used
• Compare against provisioned size
• Add storage or set up alerts as needed

3. Protect Cloud SQL from Direct Internet Access

• Navigate to Cloud SQL > Connections
• Disable “Public IP”
• Ensure Private IP is used via VPC
• Upload screenshot of updated configuration

4. Monitor GCP Compute Instance CPU Utilisation

• Go to Monitoring > Metrics Explorer
• Select resource type: gce_instance
• Metric: compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization
• Upload metric screenshot and alert configuration

5. Protect Compute Instances from Public Access

• Open VPC Network > Firewall Rules
• Identify any rules that allow 0.0.0.0/0 for SSH (port 22) or RDP (port 3389)
• Restrict access to approved IPs
• Upload updated rule configuration

6. Monitor Firestore Read Frequency

• Go to Monitoring > Metrics Explorer
• Resource: cloud_firestore_database
• Metric: document/read_count
• Set thresholds based on expected usage pattern
• Upload charts as evidence

7. Monitor Firestore Write Frequency

• Same as above
• Metric: document/write_count

Accepted Evidence

Compliance Mapping