Product Name
CIS Hardened Images® (Google Cloud Platform)
Product Version
all
Date
Problem
Cannot install stack driver agent on CIS HI in GCP
Solution
To successfully install the stack driver agent on a CIS Hardened Images in GCP, change the metadata on google-monitoring-enable and google-logging-enable from 0 to 1.
Further information and documentation on this subject:
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/troubleshooting
How to change metadata: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata#updatinginstancemetadata