How To Whitelist Better Uptime IPs on Google Cloud Platform

Better Stack Team
Updated on May 4, 2022

If you are using a Google Cloud Platform GCP with your system it is a best practice to whitelist Better Uptime IPs and User Agent. This will prevent Google Cloud from blocking Better Uptime's monitoring requests and prevent any false incident alerting.

In this quick tutorial, we will guide you through each step.

Where can I find Better Uptime IPs?

The official documentation provides list of all used Better Uptime IPs as well as the User Agent. They are split into regions for easier navigation.

Step 1

In the left menu select VPC network and then select Firewall

GCP VPC

Step 2

At the top, click the Create new firewall rule button.

GCP firewall

Step 3

Name your firewall. Then, set the following settings:

  • Network to Default
  • Priority to 1000
  • Direction of traffic to Ingress
  • Action on match to Allow
  • Target to All instances in the network
  • Source filter to All IPv4
  • Source IP ranges to the BetterUptime IPs divided by the , character

GCP ips

Then click Save

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