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Google integration for Grafana Incident (deprecated)

Note

We’ve upgraded our Google integration for a better experience.

If you are still using the legacy Google integration, you must manually migrate to the Google Workspace integration.

  • Deprecation date: October 31st - Legacy Google integration will stop working.
  • Migration: You must manually migrate to the Google Workspace integration
  • Who needs to migrate? Every Grafana Incident installation using the legacy Google integration.

Grafana Incident integrates with Google to reduce the number of administrative tasks associated with incident response. Automatically link Google Meet meetings and Google Drive files directly to an incident so you and your team can focus on incident response without interruption.

Before you begin

The Google integration requires access to your Google Calendar and Drive.

Note: Google OAuth has not yet verified Grafana Incident but it is safe to use.

Install Google integration for Grafana Incident

  1. From Grafana Incident, navigate to the Integration tab.
  2. Click the Google tile and then click Install Integration.
  3. Once you’re redirected to authenticate with Google, enter your Google credentials associated with the account you wish to connect to Grafana Incident.

Configure actions

Save your team the extra steps of manually generating a meeting or creating an incident document. Configure actions to automatically create a Google Meet meeting or Google Drive document for every incident.

Configure action to create a Google Meet meeting

Grafana Incident will automatically create a Google calendar event and a Google Meet meeting when an incident is declared.

  1. From the Google integration, click Run when an event fires.
  2. Select a Google Calendar from the dropdown and specify that the action should run when an incident is declared.
  3. Click Add event action.

After the action is configured, a link to Join Google Meet is automatically included when you declare an incident.

Configure action to create a Google Drive file

Grafana Incident will automatically copy a specified Google Drive file and attach it to your incident when one is declared. For this action, you’ll want to create a template incident or post-incident review document in Google Drive. A copy of the selected file is created when this action runs.

  1. From the Google integration, click Run when an event fires.
  2. Click Choose template from Google Drive and select your file.
  3. Specify that the action should run when an incident is declared.
  4. Click Add event action.

Grafana Incident automatically includes a link to Open Google Docs when an incident is declared.

What data is required?

We respect your privacy, and so we only pull the smallest amount of data we need in order to deliver the features. Specifically we pull:

  1. A list of calendars for you to choose where incident events are created (optional)
  2. A list of documents for you to choose which template(s) to duplicate (optional)

And we use the API to:

  1. Create a calendar event for each incident in order to create a Google Meet session (optional)
  2. Copy a Google Doc (usually a template) for each incident (optional)