GCP Spanner pattern-based discovery

  • Rversion finale: Australia
  • Mis à jour 12 mars 2026
  • 2 minutes de lecture

    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds GCP Spanner instances and databases on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

    Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

    Verify the GCP discovery prerequisites section in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud discovery using Patterns.

    Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

    Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Spanner DB pattern.

    Tableau 1. Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]
    Field Description
    Account Id [account_id] Name of the project used for the discovery.
    Object ID [object_id] Name of the project used for the discovery.
    Datacenter Type [datacenter_type] Datacenter type: Google Datacenter [cmdb_ci_google_datacenter].
    Tableau 2. Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]
    Field Description
    Name [name] Name of the availability zone.
    Description [short_description] Description of the availability zone.
    State [state] State of the Availability Zone. Possible values are Available or Terminated.
    Tableau 3. Google Datacenter [cmdb_ci_google_datacenter]
    Field Description
    Name [name] Datacenter or region name.
    Region [region] Datacenter or region name.
    Object ID [object_id] Unique identifier allocated by GCP for this resource.
    Description [short_description] Datacenter or region description.
    Tableau 4. Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]
    Field Description
    Object ID [object_id] The full resource name of the Spanner instance.
    Name [name] The display name of the Spanner instance.
    Install Status [install_status] Install status of the resource. Default value is Installed.
    Operational status [operational_status] Operational status of the resource. Default value is Operational.
    State [state] The state of the Spanner instance.
    Type [type] The type of cloud database resource.
    Node Count [node_count] The number of nodes allocated to the Spanner instance.
    Processing Units [processing_units] The number of processing units allocated to the Spanner instance.
    Fully qualified domain name [fqdn] The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the Spanner instance.
    Tableau 5. Database [cmdb_ci_database]
    Field Description
    Name [name] The name of the Spanner database.
    Type [type] The type of database.
    Install Status [install_status] Install status of the resource. Default value is Installed.

    CI relationships

    The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Spanner DB pattern creates these relationships to support GCP Spanner discovery.

    CI Relationship CI
    Google Datacenter [cmdb_ci_google_datacenter] Contains::Contained by Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]
    Google Datacenter [cmdb_ci_google_datacenter] Hosted on::Hosts Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]
    Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] Contains::Contained by Database [cmdb_ci_database]
    Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] Hosted on::Hosts Google Datacenter [cmdb_ci_google_datacenter]
    Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] Replicates to::Replicated by Google Datacenter [cmdb_ci_google_datacenter]
    Key Value [cmdb_key_value] References Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]

    GCP Tag discovery

    The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Spanner DB pattern collects tags and populates them in the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table.

    Tableau 6. Key Value [cmdb_key_value]
    Field Description
    Key [key] Tag name.
    Value [value] Tag value.
    Configuration item [configuration_item] References the Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] table.