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Google Cloud Monitoring

Ch 197.2of 50 Kubernetes Monitoring
  1. 1Runs onAPI, Linux, Web, Windows
  2. 2Costsfree trial · paid from $0.06/mo
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Overview

Google Cloud Monitoring is ranked #19 of 50 in Kubernetes monitoring on Specifiction. It runs on API, Linux, Web, Windows. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $0.06/mo.

Google Cloud Monitoring plans and pricing

All plans
Managed Service for Prometheus metrics $0.06/mo $0.06/million samples for first 0–50 billion; rates decrease by volume tier No free allotment listed cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026
Pay-as-you-go Cloud Monitoring $0.26/mo Usage-based; $0.2580/MiB for first 150–100,000 MiB, then $0.1510/MiB for next 100,000–250,000 MiB and $0.0610/MiB above 250,000 MiB All non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics · First 150 MiB per billing account for metrics charged by bytes ingested cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026
Uptime check executions $0.30/mo $0.30/1,000 executions 1 million executions per Google Cloud project included cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026
Monitoring API read calls $0.50/mo $0.50/million time series returned; write API calls have no charge First 1 million time series returned per billing account included cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026
Synthetic monitor executions $1.20/mo $1.20/1,000 executions 100 executions per billing account included cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

Compared on Kubernetes monitoring

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Facts

Purpose
Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure.cloud.google.com · 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 · 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 · 8 Oct 2026
SLOs
Users can automatically infer or custom define service-level objectives and receive alerts when violations occur.cloud.google.com · 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 · 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 · 8 Oct 2026
Kubernetes and Prometheus
Managed Service for Prometheus supports managed and self-deployed metric collection for Kubernetes workloads.cloud.google.com · 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 · 8 Oct 2026
Security and access
Access to Cloud Monitoring is controlled through Google Cloud IAM roles and permissions.docs.cloud.google.com · 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 · 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 · 8 Oct 2026
Supported environments
The Ops Agent is not supported on Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises machines.docs.cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026
API
Cloud Monitoring API v3 provides programmatic access to features including alerting policies, custom dashboards, and metrics scopes.docs.cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

Company

Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United Statescloud.google.com · 28 Sept 2026

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