Create new Google Cloud Storage Integration

Connect with Google's Cloud platform to have your IoT device and alert event data sent to a Storage bucket.

Connecting to Google Cloud Storage

Use the following steps to setup the Google Cloud Storage Integration.

Get your Cloud Storage bucket & key

1. Log into your Cloud Storage account.

2. Locate the Bucket you'll be using: Go into your project and locate the bucket that you will use to store your IoT data. Make note of the bucket name as you will need it when creating the Integration.

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Setup your Service Account Key:

In this step we will setup an account key which will then be used by the Integration so that it can access your bucket.

1. In the Cloud console and go to IAM & admin and select the Service accounts option.
   
   

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2. Click on Create Service Account.
   
   

3. Give the account an appropriate Name and description. The Service account ID will be generated automatically for you during this step - you can leave it as the default.
   
   

4. Click Create to create the service account and continue.

5. On the Permissions screen that appears, give the account an appropriate permission (such as Storage Object Creator) so that it can access & create objects in cloud storage.
   
   

6. Click Continue and then Done to complete creating the service account.

7. Locate the Service account you created, click on the 3-dot menu and select Create Key.
   
   

8. In the popup that appears, you can leave it as JSON and click Create. This will download a json file containing the private key information that we need when setting up the integration.
   
   

9. Open the downloaded json file. You will need to copy the entire contents from this file when asked during integration setup.
   
   

Create the Integration

1. Log into your IoT dashboard account where all of your devices are located.

2. Select the Integrations option and then select the Google Cloud Storage integration.

3. Enter the following information to complete the integration:

   • Name: Enter a name for this integration. In case you have multiple integrations, this will help uniquely identify it in the list.

   • Bucket: Enter the name of your Storage bucket, as obtained above.

   • Service Account Key: Paste the entire contents of the service key file, as obtained above.
     
     Paste the entire contents of the json private key file here.
     
     

     
     
     

Verifying things are working

You can verify the integration is working by logging into the Google Cloud Console and viewing the bucket records.