Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies Timeseries Data Should Be Aligned
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Ensure that GCP Cloud Monitoring timeseries data is aligned.Risk Level
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Operational Maturity, SecurityCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the “Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies Timeseries Data Should Be Aligned” misconfiguration in GCP, you can follow the below steps using the GCP console:
- Open the GCP console and navigate to the Cloud Monitoring page.
- In the left-hand menu, click on “Alerting” and then select “Policies”.
- Find the policy that is triggering the misconfiguration and click on it to open the policy details.
- In the policy details, navigate to the “Conditions” tab and find the condition that is triggering the misconfiguration.
- Click on the condition to open its details and scroll down to the “Alignment Period” setting.
- Set the “Alignment Period” to a value that aligns with the time series data being monitored. For example, if you are monitoring data that is collected every minute, set the “Alignment Period” to “1 minute”.
- Click on “Save” to save the changes to the condition.
- Repeat steps 4-7 for any other conditions that are triggering the misconfiguration.
- Once you have updated all relevant conditions, click on “Save” to save the changes to the policy.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies Timeseries Data Should Be Aligned” for GCP using GCP CLI, follow the below steps:Replace
- Open the Google Cloud Console and navigate to the Cloud Monitoring page.
- Click on the Alerting tab on the left-hand side menu.
- Select the alert policy that is affected by the misconfiguration.
- Click on the Edit button to modify the alert policy.
- Scroll down to the “Conditions” section and click on the condition that is affected by the misconfiguration.
- In the “Configuration” section of the condition, change the “Alignment Period” to a value that aligns with the time series data.
- Click on the Save button to save the changes.
- Verify that the misconfiguration has been remediated by checking that the alert policy is no longer showing the misconfiguration.
[CONDITION_ID] with the ID of the condition that is affected by the misconfiguration, and [ALIGNMENT_PERIOD] with the value that aligns with the time series data.Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies Timeseries Data Should Be Aligned” in GCP using Python, you can follow the below steps:
- First, you need to identify the alert policies that are affected by this misconfiguration. You can do this by using the GCP Cloud Monitoring API and fetching the alert policies.
- Once you have identified the alert policies, you need to modify them to ensure that the timeseries data is aligned. You can do this by setting the “alignmentPeriod” property of the alert policy to a value that aligns with the data being monitored.
- You can use the following Python code to modify the alert policies:
- Once you have modified the alert policies, you should verify that the misconfiguration has been remediated by checking the alignment period of the policies.