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[GCP-3635] Clarify Additional Locations field for GCP region filtering#36729

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What does this PR do? What is the motivation?

Addresses GCP-3635

Customers configuring region filtering on the Google Cloud integration sometimes have region, zone, or location label values that don't match the standard checkboxes (for example, us-central instead of us-central1). The previous copy mentioned the Additional Locations field only briefly and didn't explain that the filter is an exact match, so customers weren't realizing they could resolve mismatches by entering the precise label value there.

This PR rewords the region-filtering section to:

  • Call out region, zone, and location values explicitly.
  • State that the filter performs an exact match against the label reported by Google Cloud.
  • Give concrete examples (us-central, us-central1-f) so customers know to use the precise value from their resources.
  • Keep the global-metrics sentence separate so each idea reads cleanly.

Preview link: https://docs-staging.datadoghq.com/sujay.desai/gcp-3635-region-filter-docs/getting_started/integrations/google_cloud/?tab=orglevel#google-cloud-integrations

Explain that the region filter uses an exact match against the GCP-reported
label, and that nuanced region/zone/location values not shown in the
checkboxes should be entered in the Additional Locations field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@sujaysdesai sujaysdesai requested a review from MikeCronk May 15, 2026 15:10
sujaysdesai and others added 2 commits May 15, 2026 11:10
Drop the zonal example from the Additional Locations note (one example is
enough), and remove the stray comma in the collapse section title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@sujaysdesai sujaysdesai marked this pull request as ready for review May 15, 2026 17:16
@sujaysdesai sujaysdesai requested a review from a team as a code owner May 15, 2026 17:16
@sujaysdesai sujaysdesai requested review from ash-ddog and buraizu May 15, 2026 17:16
Now that the zonal example is removed, the description lists only region
and location values.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@sujaysdesai sujaysdesai removed the request for review from ash-ddog May 15, 2026 20:41
@sujaysdesai sujaysdesai merged commit e6ff634 into master May 15, 2026
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