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On the recordRead 9 Oct 202613 facts
Google Cloud Trace
Plans and prices
Cloud Trace usage-based pricing
$0.20usage-based
First 2.5 million spans per billing account/month free · Auto-generated spans from App Engine Standard, Cloud Run functions, and Cloud Run are non-chargeable
Read 9 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
On the record
- API quota
- The Cloud Trace API has a daily span-ingestion quota of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000,000 spans, based on billing history and quota increase requests; this quota does not apply to Telemetry API ingestion.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Automatic tracing
- App Engine standard, Cloud Run functions, and Cloud Run automatically capture some trace data.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- BigQuery
- A linked BigQuery dataset enables joining trace data with other BigQuery datasets and querying it from BigQuery Studio or Data Studio.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Company history
- Google Inc. was officially born in August 1998, and Google identifies its current headquarters as the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.about.google · read 9 Oct 2026
- Data residency caveat
- Google says not to use the Cloud Trace API to send trace spans when using Assured Workloads for data-residency or IL4 requirements.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Instrumentation
- Google recommends OpenTelemetry, with Go, Java, Node.js, and Python instrumentation samples.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Cloud Logging entries can be associated with traces and spans, and displayed alongside trace waterfall graphs or in Logs Explorer.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Latency analysis
- Trace Explorer displays aggregate latency on a heatmap and lets users filter data and inspect individual traces and spans.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Cloud Trace collects latency data to help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across services and generative AI applications.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Retention
- Spans stored in the _Trace bucket are retained for 30 days.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- Cloud Trace supports VPC Service Controls and uses Identity and Access Management to control access to resources.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- SQL analytics
- Observability Analytics provides a SQL interface for querying trace data and joining it with log data.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Supported environments
- Trace runs on Linux in Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Apigee (Public Preview), App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Service Mesh, Cloud SQL query insights, and non-Google Cloud environments.docs.cloud.google.com · read 9 Oct 2026
