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id: cloud-auto-scaler
title: Google Cloud Auto Scaler
sidebar_label: Google Cloud Auto Scaler
description: Learn about the Sumo Logic collection process for the Google Cloud Auto Scaler service.
slug: /help/docs/integrations/google/cloud-auto-scaler/
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/integrations/google/cloud-auto-scaler/
---

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Managed instance groups (MIGs) offer autoscaling capabilities that let you automatically add or delete virtual machine (VM) instances from a MIG based on increases or decreases in load. Autoscaling helps your apps gracefully handle increases in traffic and reduce costs when the need for resources is lower. For more details, refer to the [GCP documentation](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler).

## Log and metric types

* [Google Cloud Metrics](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp)
* [Platform Logs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appflow/latest/userguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.html)

## Setup

You can collect the logs and metrics for Sumo Logic's Google Cloud Auto Scaler integration by following the below steps.

### Configure logs collection

* Collect **Platform Logs** using the [Google Cloud Platform source](/docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/google-source/google-cloud-platform-source). When you enable autoscaling, the [autoscaler](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/viewing-autoscaler-logs) makes scaling decisions based on the options that you specify. Each scaling decision is logged by Cloud Logging which can be collected. While creating the sync in GCP, as part of the **Choose logs to include in sink** section, you can use the following query:
   ```sql
   (resource.type=autoscaler)
   ```

### Configure metrics collection

* Collect **GCP Metrics** using the [GCP Metric](/docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/google-source/gcp-metrics-source/) source. Under the **Services** dropdown, select **Auto Scaler**. For Google Auto Scaler metrics and dimensions, refer to [Google Auto Scaler metrics](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp#gcp-autoscaler).