GCP Overview and Support
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the world’s leading public cloud providers, offering a variety of cloud services. After InsightCloudSec is successfully installed, you're ready to enable visibility into your target GCP Organization(s) and/or project(s). This documentation provides details about adding accounts, managing or deleting existing accounts, and what GCP services we support.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The following frequently asked questions and answers should help you understand GCP in InsightCloudSec.
What does InsightCloudSec support from GCP?
What does InsightCloudSec support from GCP?
As one of the leading public cloud service providers, InsightCloudSec provides broad support for GCP and we are always expanding. Review the full list of GCP-specific supported services in the GCP Support Reference section.
How do I start seeing my GCP environments in InsightCloudSec?
How do I start seeing my GCP environments in InsightCloudSec?
InsightCloudSec relies on a process called "harvesting" to pull data from various CSPs. Review GCP - Onboarding for details.
What do I do after my environments is being harvested?
What do I do after my environments is being harvested?
After at least one GCP account is harvested by InsightCloudSec, you're free to configure additional GCP services as necessary to enhance, optimize, or further secure your experience. Review GCP Additional Configuration for more information.
How can I optimize harvesting?
How can I optimize harvesting?
InsightCloudSec harvesting is the term we use to describe the process of data collection from a selected cloud service provider (CSP) within InsightCloudSec. Check out our Harvesting Overview documentation to understand the basics and refer to Harvesting Strategies for details on specific strategies.
In addition, for GCP, InsightCloudSec offers Event-Driven Harvesting, which requires additional configuration but optimizes harvesting by only pulling in new data based on real-time notifications about resource and policy changes using a Cloud Asset Inventory feed, which triggers targeted harvesting using Pub/Sub. Review our GCP Event-Driven Harvesting documentation for more information.
Manage GCP Cloud Accounts
After initial configuration of the account in GCP, you can add the account to InsightCloudSec. In InsightCloudSec, you onboard a cloud account or organization using the onboarding wizard. Review Onboard an GCP Cloud Account or Onboard an GCP Organization for details.
Once an account is successfully being harvested by InsightCloudSec, it can be modified or deleted as necessary.
- Modify: For general information about managing existing GCP Cloud accounts, check out the Clouds section and subsections on Cloud Account Setup & Management. Information about viewing the details of a single cloud account is available on the Cloud Account Detail Page.
- Delete: Cloud accounts can be deleted through their individual Settings page.
GCP Support Reference
Supported Services
Supported Services
Included in this section are all of the GCP services (and their components) supported by InsightCloudSec. If you have questions related to GCP or specific services and their support contact us through the Customer Support Portal.
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Recommended APIs
Recommended APIs
The following APIs can be enabled from the APIs and Services Library within the GCP Console and are recommended to harvest all of the services listed above. The Cloud Billing API remains optional and should not affect your ability to use InsightCloudSec.
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