Monitoring a GCP account using Security Monkey

Monitoring the data center is an important job in the day-to-day operations of DC maintenance. Different parameters are monitored—usage of resources, idle time, software updates, performance logs, security logs, and so on. This helps administrators take preventive and corrective actions against events. Security Monkey is an open source monitoring tool developed initially by the team at Netflix to monitor their AWS infrastructure. Currently a lot of development is underway to support more and more GCP services.

In this recipe, we'll use Security Monkey on our GCP infrastructure and look at how it can be used for monitoring at an organization level.

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps before the recipe can be executed:

1. Create or select a GCP project
2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs like BigQuery, storage, monitoring, and a few others are enabled automatically)
3. Enable the Google Identity and Access...