What is Google Cloud Monitoring?
Google Cloud Monitoring collects and presents metrics, dashboards and alerts for cloud services and connected workloads. It is part of Google Cloud Observability, while logging, tracing and other related services retain their own configuration and charging boundaries.
Who is Google Cloud Monitoring for?
Teams monitoring Google Cloud services and connected workloads with Google’s observability tools.
Google Cloud Monitoring features
The core capabilities to consider for your workflow.
- Cloud and workload metrics
- Dashboards and metric exploration
- Alert policies and notification channels
- Uptime and synthetic monitoring options
Google Cloud Monitoring pricing
Included metrics and allowances; metered usage
Map metrics to byte-based or sample-based charging where applicable, then include API usage, checks and alerting. Review connected logging and tracing separately.
Calculate the cost of your quote →Free access & evaluation
Some metrics are non-chargeable and certain activities have free allowances. Other ingestion, queries, checks and alerting activities can be metered.
Before you choose Google Cloud Monitoring
Included metrics and allowances do not make every custom metric, API query or synthetic check free.
Cloud Logging, tracing and other related services need separate scope and cost checks.
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Google Cloud Monitoring FAQs
Does Google Cloud Monitoring have a free plan?
Some metrics are non-chargeable and certain activities have free allowances. Other ingestion, queries, checks and alerting activities can be metered.
Who is Google Cloud Monitoring for?
Teams monitoring Google Cloud services and connected workloads with Google’s observability tools.
What should I compare before buying?
Check the tier that contains your essential features, confirm plan limits and compare the total quote with your own expected usage.