Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

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Spec sheet

Purpose: It is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service built on Google Cloud’s globally scalable data store.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Intended users: Google describes use cases that include monitoring Kubernetes, serverless, and virtual machine deployments with Prometheus and PromQL.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
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.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Collectors: Customers can use managed collectors that are automatically deployed, scaled, sharded, configured, and maintained, or use self-deployed collectors.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
External environments: Self-deployed collectors can collect metrics from applications outside Google Cloud, including Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments such as virtual machines.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Global queries: The service supports global queries over regionalized data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
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.Read 7 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
PromQL and dashboards: Prometheus metrics can be queried with PromQL in Cloud Monitoring and viewed with Cloud Monitoring dashboards, alerting, and SLO monitoring features.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Retention: Metrics are stored for two years at no additional charge.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Rule evaluation: The service supports a stand-alone global rule evaluator for existing recording and alerting rules against global data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
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.Read 7 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com

Plans and prices

Monitoring API read calls $0.50 a month Write API calls have no charge; read API calls are charged by time series returned. 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 Price not published By samples ingested; sample counts are per billing account. No free allotment per month · 24-month retention at no additional charge Read 7 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com

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