- Home
- Metrics Monitoring Tools
- Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
On the recordRead 7 Oct 202611 facts
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
Plans and prices
Monitoring API read calls
$0.50a month
First 1 million time series returned per billing account each month are free · No charge for read API calls issued through the Google Cloud console, excluding Cloud Shell
Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Metrics ingestion
Priced on request
No free allotment per month · 24-month retention at no additional charge
Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
On the record
- Collectors
- Customers can use managed collectors that are automatically deployed, scaled, sharded, configured, and maintained, or use self-deployed collectors.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- External environments
- Self-deployed collectors can collect metrics from applications outside Google Cloud, including Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments such as virtual machines.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Global queries
- The service supports global queries over regionalized data.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The service supports querying with Grafana and the Prometheus HTTP API, and can be used with the Ops Agent to collect Prometheus metrics from virtual machines.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Google describes use cases that include monitoring Kubernetes, serverless, and virtual machine deployments with Prometheus and PromQL.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The minimum scrape interval is five seconds, and stored data is downsampled after one week at full granularity and again after the following five weeks.docs.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- PromQL and dashboards
- Prometheus metrics can be queried with PromQL in Cloud Monitoring and viewed with Cloud Monitoring dashboards, alerting, and SLO monitoring features.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- It is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service built on Google Cloud’s globally scalable data store.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Retention
- Metrics are stored for two years at no additional charge.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Rule evaluation
- The service supports a stand-alone global rule evaluator for existing recording and alerting rules against global data.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Support and agreements
- As part of Cloud Monitoring, the service inherits certain agreements and certifications, including the Operations Service Level Agreement, US DISA and FedRAMP compliance levels, and VPC Service Controls support.docs.cloud.google.com · read 7 Oct 2026
