Description
This policy ensures that Cloud Monitoring is enabled for all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata from your clusters, providing visibility into cluster performance, uptime, and overall health.
Rationale
Enabling Cloud Monitoring allows you to track resource utilization, troubleshoot issues, and set up alerts for abnormal behavior. Without monitoring, you lack the necessary visibility to diagnose problems, optimize performance, or respond effectively to security incidents.
Audit
This policy marks a Google GKE Cluster as INCOMPLIANT if Monitoring Service is not set to monitoring.googleapis.com/kubernetes.
Default Value
Cloud Monitoring is enabled by default starting in GKE version 1.14; Legacy Logging and Monitoring support is enabled by default for earlier versions.