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Google Cloud Monitoring
Mountain View, California, United States
What it is
Google Cloud Monitoring is a cloud service for tracking application and infrastructure performance, availability, and health. It automatically collects metrics for Google Cloud services and supports hybrid and multicloud environments. Dashboards, uptime monitoring, and alerts can use custom layouts and multi-condition policies. Users can infer service-level objectives automatically or define them and receive alerts when they are violated. Script-based synthetic monitors check web applications and APIs for faulty behavior. Managed Service for Prometheus supports managed and self-deployed metric collection for Kubernetes workloads. On supported Linux and Windows virtual machines, the Ops Agent collects logs and metrics and includes third-party application integrations. Alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, or the Cloud Mobile App. Access uses Google Cloud IAM roles and permissions, while Cloud Monitoring API v3 provides programmatic access to metrics scopes, dashboards, and alerting policies. Charges depend on usage meters, with some free monthly allotments. The Ops Agent does not support Amazon EC2 or on-premises machines.
For and against
For
- Supports hybrid and multicloud environments
- Custom dashboards and alert policies
- Synthetic web and API monitoring
- Managed Prometheus for Kubernetes
- Multiple alert delivery channels
Against
- Usage-based charges vary by meter
- Ops Agent excludes Amazon EC2
- Ops Agent excludes on-premises machines
- Some monitoring allotments have limits
The verdict
Google Cloud Monitoring combines metrics, objectives, uptime checks, synthetic tests, and alert routing. Its usage-based model and agent coverage should be considered when planning monitoring deployments.
Who it suits
Google Cloud Monitoring suits teams overseeing cloud, hybrid, or multicloud applications and infrastructure. It is useful for Kubernetes, virtual-machine, uptime, and synthetic monitoring workflows.
Plans and prices
Managed Service for Prometheus metrics
No free allotment listed
Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Pay-as-you-go Cloud Monitoring
All non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics · First 150 MiB per billing account for metrics charged by bytes ingested
Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Uptime check executions
1 million executions per Google Cloud project included
Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Monitoring API read calls
First 1 million time series returned per billing account included
Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Synthetic monitor executions
100 executions per billing account included
Read 8 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
On the record
- API
- Cloud Monitoring API v3 provides programmatic access to features including alerting policies, custom dashboards, and metrics scopes.docs.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Google Cloud states that its services are independently audited for ISO/IEC 27001, and Cloud Monitoring is listed among covered software services.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Dashboards and alerts
- The service combines metrics, uptime monitoring, dashboards, and alerts, and supports custom dashboards and multi-condition alerting policies.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Hybrid and multicloud
- It provides automatic metric collection dashboards for Google Cloud services and supports hybrid and multicloud environments.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Monitoring alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, and the Cloud Mobile App.docs.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Kubernetes and Prometheus
- Managed Service for Prometheus supports managed and self-deployed metric collection for Kubernetes workloads.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Security and access
- Access to Cloud Monitoring is controlled through Google Cloud IAM roles and permissions.docs.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- SLOs
- Users can automatically infer or custom define service-level objectives and receive alerts when violations occur.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Supported environments
- The Ops Agent is not supported on Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises machines.docs.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Synthetic monitoring
- Synthetic monitors run automated script-based tests to track web application and API performance and can alert on faulty behavior.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Usage limits and charges
- Monitoring charges can depend on ingested data, returned time series, uptime-check executions, and synthetic-monitor executions; free monthly allotments apply to several meters.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- VM agents
- The Ops Agent collects logs and metrics on supported Linux and Windows virtual machines and includes integrations for third-party applications.docs.cloud.google.com · read 8 Oct 2026
