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Ensure that GCP Cloud Monitoring timeseries data is aligned.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Operational Maturity, Security

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the “Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies Timeseries Data Should Be Aligned” misconfiguration in GCP, you can follow the below steps using the GCP console:

  1. Open the GCP console and navigate to the Cloud Monitoring page.
  2. In the left-hand menu, click on “Alerting” and then select “Policies”.
  3. Find the policy that is triggering the misconfiguration and click on it to open the policy details.
  4. In the policy details, navigate to the “Conditions” tab and find the condition that is triggering the misconfiguration.
  5. Click on the condition to open its details and scroll down to the “Alignment Period” setting.
  6. Set the “Alignment Period” to a value that aligns with the time series data being monitored. For example, if you are monitoring data that is collected every minute, set the “Alignment Period” to “1 minute”.
  7. Click on “Save” to save the changes to the condition.
  8. Repeat steps 4-7 for any other conditions that are triggering the misconfiguration.
  9. Once you have updated all relevant conditions, click on “Save” to save the changes to the policy.

By following these steps, you will have successfully remediated the “Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies Timeseries Data Should Be Aligned” misconfiguration in GCP.

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