Troubleshooting Guide

FAQ capturing the common issues encountered while running Machmeter.

Table of contents

1. I get “Caller is missing IAM permission spanner.sessions.create” error while running setup command. What should I do?
2. I get dial tcp [::1]:8080: connect: connection refused error while trying to run execute command. What should I do?

I get “Caller is missing IAM permission spanner.sessions.create” error while running setup command. What should I do?

This happens when the service account used does not have the adequate permissions to call Spanner APIs in the GCP project you are using. Ensure that:

• Service account has the correct set of permissions. It would be able to access Spanner APIs and GKE APIs.
• Ensure that the service_account_json value is correctly configured in the gkeConfig

I get dial tcp [::1]:8080: connect: connection refused error while trying to run execute command. What should I do?

This is because the GKE cluster’s auth is not correctly setup. Run the following to resolve it.

Debian:

sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin

Component manager:

gcloud components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin