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title: Google Serverless VPC Access monitoring integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/google-cloud-platform-integrations/gcp-integrations-list/google-serverless-vpc-access-monitoring-integration
---

[New Relic integrations](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/introduction-infra-monitoring) with the [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](https://cloud.google.com/) include one that reports [Google Cloud Serverless VPC Access](https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/serverless-vpc-access) data to New Relic. This document explains how to activate the GCP Serverless VPC Access integration and describes the data it reports.

## Features

Serverless VPC Access lets serverless services on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine) reach internal-IP resources inside a VPC network through managed connectors. New Relic VPC Access integration collects instance count, CPU, memory, and network throughput metrics for each connector.

## Activate integration [#activate]

To enable the integration, follow standard procedures to [connect your GCP service to New Relic](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/connect-google-cloud-platform-services-infrastructure):

-   [Connect with Workload Identity Federation (recommended)](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/connect-google-cloud-platform-services-infrastructure)
-   [Connect with service account or user account](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/connect-google-cloud-platform-services-infrastructure)

## Polling frequency [#polling]

New Relic integrations query your GCP services according to a polling interval that varies by integration. The polling frequency for Google Cloud Serverless VPC Access is 5 minutes. The resolution is 1 data point every minute.

## Workload Identity Federation [#wif]

### Find and use data [#find-data-wif]

After you enable the integration, your VPC Access connectors appear as entities in the New Relic entity explorer. To see dashboards and manage services, go to [one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure > GCP.

All Serverless VPC Access metrics available in GCP Cloud Monitoring are collected as dimensional metrics in the `Metric` event type. Additional metrics beyond this table are collected automatically. See [Google's Serverless VPC Access metrics documentation](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp_p_z#gcp-vpcaccess) for the complete list.

#### Entities

**Serverless VPC Access entities**

| Entity    | Entity type             | Resource type          |
| --------- | ----------------------- | ---------------------- |
| Connector | `GCPVPCACCESSCONNECTOR` | `vpc_access_connector` |

### Metric data [#metrics-wif]

#### Key metrics — Connector

| Metric name                                    | Unit    | Description                                                       |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `gcp.vpcaccess.connector.instances`            | Count   | Number of connector instances currently running.                  |
| `gcp.vpcaccess.connector.cpu.utilizations`     | Percent | CPU utilization on the VPC Access connector, faceted by instance. |
| `gcp.vpcaccess.connector.received_bytes_count` | Bytes   | Ingress bytes received by the VPC Access connector.               |
| `gcp.vpcaccess.connector.sent_bytes_count`     | Bytes   | Egress bytes sent by the VPC Access connector.                    |

For the complete list of Serverless VPC Access metrics, see [Google's Serverless VPC Access metrics documentation](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp_p_z#gcp-vpcaccess).

## Service account or user account [#service-account]

### Find and use data [#find-data]

After activating the integration and waiting a few minutes (based on the [polling frequency](#polling)), data will appear in the New Relic UI. To [find and use your data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations/find-use-infrastructure-integration-data), including links to your dashboards and alert settings, go to [one.newrelic.com > All capabilities](https://one.newrelic.com/all-capabilities) > Infrastructure > GCP > (select an integration).

Data is attached to the following [event type](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#event-data):

| Entity    | Event Type                    | Provider                |
| --------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| Connector | `GcpVpcaccessConnectorSample` | `GcpVpcaccessConnector` |

For more on how to use your data, see [Understand and use integration data](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/integrations/find-use-infrastructure-integration-data).

### VPC Access Connector data

| Metric                      | Unit  | Description                                           |
| --------------------------- | ----- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| `connector.ReceivedBytes`   | Bytes | Delta of bytes transferred by a VPC Access Connector. |
| `connector.ReceivedPackets` | Count | Delta of packets received by a VPC Access Connector.  |
| `connector.SentBytes`       | Bytes | Delta of bytes transferred by a VPC Access Connector. |
| `connector.SentPackets`     | Count | Delta of packets sent by a VPC Access Connector.      |