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Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus vs Google Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

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Google Cloud Monitoring

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FigureGoogle Cloud Managed Service for PrometheusGoogle Cloud Monitoring
Price from$0.50/mo$0.06/mo
Free plan——
Free trialYesYes
Open source——
WebYesYes
Windows—Yes
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published25
Spec score · Metrics Monitoring Tools8.1 (#12)8.3 (#10)
IntegrationsThe 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.Monitoring alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, and the Cloud Mobile App.
PurposeIt is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service built on Google Cloud’s globally scalable data store.Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure.

Plans

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

  • Monitoring API read calls$0.50 a month
  • Metrics ingestionPrice not published

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Google Cloud Monitoring

  • Managed Service for Prometheus metrics$0.06 a month
  • Pay-as-you-go Cloud Monitoring$0.26 a month
  • Uptime check executions$0.30 a month
  • Monitoring API read calls$0.50 a month
  • Synthetic monitor executions$1.20 a month

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Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

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Google Cloud Monitoring

Google Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure. It automatically collects metrics for Google Cloud services and also supports hybrid and multicloud environments. The service brings together metrics, uptime checks, dashboards, and alerts; users can build custom dashboards and multi-condition alert policies. Service-level objectives can be inferred automatically or defined by users, with alerts for violations. Script-based synthetic monitors test web applications and APIs. For Kubernetes, Managed Service for Prometheus handles managed or self-deployed metric collection. 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. Cloud Monitoring API v3 offers programmatic access to metrics scopes, dashboards, and alerting policies. It runs in the cloud and lists API, Linux, web, and Windows platforms. Pricing is usage-based, with free monthly allotments on several meters; charges can depend on ingested data, time series returned, and check executions.

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