<p>There are two ways to authenticate the Stackdriver plugin - either by uploading a Google JWT file, or by
automatically retrieving credentials from Google metadata server. The latter option is only available
when running Grafana on GCE virtual machine.</p>
<h5>Uploading a JWT file</h5>
<p>
To authenticate with the Stackdriver API, you need to create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Service Account for
First you need to create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Service Account for
the Project you want to show data for. A Grafana datasource integrates with one GCP Project. If you want to
visualize data from multiple GCP Projects then you need to create one datasource per GCP Project.
</p>
<p>
The <strong>Monitoring Viewer</strong> role provides all the permissions that Grafana needs.
The <strong>Monitoring Viewer</strong> role provides all the permissions that Grafana needs. The following API
needs to be enabled on GCP for the datasource to work: <aclass="external-link"target="_blank"href="https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/monitoring.googleapis.com">Monitoring
API</a>
</p>
<h5>GCE Default Service Account</h5>
<p>
The following APIs need to be enabled on GCP for the datasource to work: