This page describes the best practices for monitoring your networks with Cloud Network Insights.
Enable in a dedicated Google Cloud project
While you can enable Cloud Network Insights in any Google Cloud project, we recommend creating a new, dedicated project for enabling Cloud Network Insights. You can monitor other Google Cloud projects by deploying a Monitoring Point to them.
We don't recommend adding a Monitoring Point to the project with Cloud Network Insights enabled.
Deploy to the location you want to monitor
We recommend deploying one Monitoring Point to each location you want to monitor, such as on-premises networks, data centers, or Google Cloud regions.
In addition, what you want to monitor determines where you deploy Monitoring Points. For example, if you want to monitor the user experience for a web app, deploy a Monitoring Point in the same network environment. The closer you can get to deploying in the same subnet, location, VLAN, etc., the more closely you can monitor the user experience.
Learn more about deployment Best Practices from AppNeta.
Deploy a single-purpose container or VM first
Before deploying a Monitoring Point, deploy one of the following to the network that includes the application you want to monitor.
- A container on a VM
- A container on GKE
- VM on KVM
- VM on VmWare
Then install the Monitoring Point on the fresh container or VM.
We don't recommend installing a Monitoring Point directly with the workload you want to monitor. This isolates the Monitoring Point from other applications, preventing resource contention and ensuring more reliable monitoring results.
Use multiple severities when creating alarm rules
When creating alarm rules, define multiple rules for the same metric. With multiple levels, you can create different notifications.
For example, create an alarm rule with a Minor severity level in AppNeta and a second alarm rule with a Major severity level. You can then create notifications that send information for the Minor alert to a chat and the information for the Major alert to a pager.
For more alarm best practices, see the AppNeta documentation.