Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

How to do it...

To create the automated alerts when a user creates an instance outside our region of choice (us-west1), we'll need to perform two steps. Firstly, we'll have to create custom metric to identify the breach event. Next, we'll create an alerting policy in Stackdriver Monitoring to send us a notification when the conditions of the custom metric are met:

1. Navigate to the Stackdriver Logging in the GCP Console.
2. In the resource dropdown, select GCE VM Instance, which will show us all logs related to VMs:

If you don't have any logs for VM creation in your project, create a test VM to generate the activity logs.

3. From the drop-down, ...