Google Cloud Monitoring vs M3
Google Cloud Monitoring
cloud.google.com
M3
m3db.ioSide by side
| Figure | Google Cloud Monitoring | M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.06/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · Metrics Monitoring Tools | 8.3 (#10) | 7.7 (#20) |
| Integrations | Monitoring alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, and the Cloud Mobile App. | The documentation describes integrations with Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, and InfluxDB. |
| Purpose | Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure. | M3 is a Prometheus-compatible metrics engine for scaling Prometheus-based monitoring and centralized metrics storage. |
Plans
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
In their own words
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.