Database Center uses data from your Google Cloud projects and Security Command Center to aggregate and categorize database health issues based on the resources in your Google Cloud organization, as defined by your company. Some companies might have more than one organization.
In Database Center, resources are the clusters and virtual machines that handle your workloads. An individual resource is a named unit of compute or storage. For example, in Cloud SQL, an instance and a read replica are separate individual resources.
A database resource group refers to all cloud computing resources that serve a set of data and have ongoing replication. For example, in Cloud SQL, one database resource group includes a primary instance and all the read replica instances associated with it.
Health issue categories
To help you view the most important aspects of your database fleet health at a glance, Database Center organizes health issues into industry-standard categories including availability, data protection, security, industry compliance, and logging.
A database health issue is any topic that you want to monitor to ensure that your fleet is healthy and that your applications are robust and secure.
You can customize which databases and health issues Database Center displays. When you customize health issues, your customizations only apply to your view of the organization. Health issue customizations are saved at the per-user level.
Health issue categories are described as follows:
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Availability configuration |
Availability issues track resource configurations that affect durability, fault tolerance, and downtime. |
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Cost |
Cost issues help you optimize your database fleet for cost-saving opportunities. |
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Data protection |
Data protection issues help you ensure the following:
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Security |
Security issues help you perform the following types of tasks:
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Industry compliance |
Industry compliance issues help you ensure that the database resources in your organization are compliant with common industry standards. Database Center helps you monitor compliance for the following industry standards:
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Performance and capacity |
Performance and capacity issues help you determine if your resource usage is affecting your database performance. These issues highlight the following:
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Other |
Other issues include configurations that can help you with the following:
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Supported health issues
To view the health issues for a specific database, select one or more Google Cloud database product:
| Category | Issue |
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| Availability | Resource not failover protected |
| Data protection | No automated backup policy |
| Data protection | Short backup retention |
| Data protection | Last backup failed |
| Data protection | Last backup older than 24h |
| Industry compliance | Violates NIST 800-53 |
| Industry compliance | Violates ISO-27001 |
| Security | Unencrypted connections |
| Security | Auditing not enabled for important instance |
| Security | Server certificate expiring |
| Performance and capacity | Underprovisioned resource |