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Ingestion health with one collector

  • November 21, 2025
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melissagr
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Hello ,

I have a question about our specific architecture:
we currently have a single collector (with several forwarders)  that aggregates logs from many devices and customers (for example, multiple Fortigate firewalls from different tenants).

With ingestion health metrics / Cloud Monitoring, I can see when the collector itself stops ingesting logs, but I don’t see how to know which exact firewall or customer pipeline has gone silent if the collector is still receiving logs from other sources.

My questions are:

  • In a single-collector design, is there a recommended way to make ingestion alerts more granular (per customer / per device)? For example, using different ingestion_source labels or another best practice?

Thanks a lot for any guidance or design recommendations on this.

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Rob_P
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  • November 21, 2025

Hi There ​@melissagr  - 

Yes, this flexibility should be available within Cloud Health > Monitoring > Alerts page. 

Once you Select the appropriate Metrics for the collector, you should be able to add a filter for Log_Type and specify the alert should trigger when that log_type is missing for your predetermined interval. 

This page here may have additional resources as well:

https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/metric-absence

I hope this helps, let us know if you have further questions or need assistance with the alert tuning. 

Thanks!