# Stackdriver

[<mark style="color:blue;">Stackdriver</mark>](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs) offers monitoring of a wide variety of metrics, dashboards, alerting, log management, reporting, and tracing capabilities.

Route detailed events from Stackdriver to the right users in Squadcast.

### How to integrate Stackdriver with Squadcast

#### In Squadcast: Using Stackdriver as an Alert Source

1. Navigate to **Services** -> **Service Overview** -> select or search for your Service. Expand the accordion -> In the Alert Sources section, click **Add**.

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2\. Select **Stackdriver.** Copy the displayed **Webhook URL** to [configure](#in-stackdriver-adding-a-webhook-for-squadcast) it within **Stackdriver.** Finish by clicking **Add Alert Source** -> **Done.**

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{% hint style="warning" %}
**Important:**

When an alert source turns Active, it’ll show up under Configured Alert Sources, you can either generate a test alert from the integration or wait for a real-time alert to be generated by the Alert Source. An Alert Source is active if there is a recorded incident via that Alert Source for the Service.
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### In Stackdriver: Adding a Webhook for Squadcast

Login to your Google Cloud console. From the sidebar on the left, scroll to find **Operations** and select **Monitoring**

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#### Adding a Notification Channel - Webhooks

**(1)** From the left sidebar, select **Alerting**

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**(2)** Select **Edit Notification Channels**

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**(3)** Scroll until you find **Webhooks**. Here, click on **Add New** to add the Squadcast Webhook

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**(4)** Here, paste the previously copied Webhook from Squadcast under **Endpoint URL**. Give the Webhook a meaningful **Displaye Name**.

**Things to keep in mind here**:

* **Do not enable** the checkbox for using HTTP Basic Auth
* When you paste the Webhook from Squadcast in **Endpoint URL** field, ensure you remove the additional `https://` that gets added

**(5)** Click on **Test Connection** and check to see if an incident has been created for the incident in Squadcast

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**(6)** Finally, click on **Save**

#### Setting up Alerting Policies

**(1)** Within the **Alerting** page, to add a **Policy**, click on either **+ Create Policy** on the top or **Add Policy** in the bottom

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**(2)** Now, **Add Condition** for your **Policy**. In that page, you can set up the metrics that you would wish to monitor and their thresholds, along with the resources

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**(3)** Once that is done, select **Next**

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**(4)** In the **Notification Channels** dropdown, select the Webhook previously configured for Squadcast and select **OK**

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**(5)** Enable the checkbox as shown in the screenshot to receive **Incident Resolutions signals** as well. Then, select **Next**

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**(6)** Here, add a meaningul **Alert Name**, add **Optional Documentation** and click on **Save** to create your **Alerting Policy**

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**(7)** Once everything is done, in the **Policies** page, you will be able to see the previously added **Alerting Policy**. Ensure that the **Alerting Policy** toggle is **Enabled** to `on`

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That is it, you are now good to go! Whenever an alert is generated in Stackdriver, an incident will be created for the same in Squadcast.

{% hint style="info" %}
**FAQ:**

Q: Does this integration support auto-resolution of incidents in Squadcast?\
A: Yes, this integration **supports auto-resolution of incidents in Squadcast**, meaning that whenever alerts get resolved in Stackdriver, the corresponding incidents will be automatically resolved in Squadcast as well. If you do not enable the checkbox to **recieve Incident Resolution signals**, then your Squadcast incidents will not be auto-resolved when alerts in Stackdriver are resolved.
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*Have any questions?* [*Ask the community*](https://community.squadcast.com/view/home)*.*