Monitoring release notes

This page documents production updates to Monitoring. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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September 15, 2025

When viewing a chart, you can now open a flyout that displays the chart and related log entries. To explore your metric and log data in more detail, you can then use the toolbars and menus in the flyout. To learn more, see the following:

• Correlate metric and log data
• Explore application telemetry

August 21, 2025

The following infrastructure is now integrated with Application Monitoring, which is in public preview.

• AlloyDB for PostgreSQL clusters and services
• Bigtable clusters and services
• Dataproc Metastore services
• Cloud Deploy delivery pipelines
• Firestore databases
• Secret Manager secrets

To learn more, see Application Monitoring overview and Supported infrastructure.

August 05, 2025

You can now use the time_series_billed_for_queries_count metric to estimate charges based on the number of time series that have been queried. For more information, see View the number of time series billed for queries.

Billing by time series queried isn't enforced until October 2, 2025. For more information, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary.

July 24, 2025

You can now monitor and understand the costs and utilization of resources in your Google Cloud project or App Hub application by using the Cost Explorer. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Optimize costs with the Cost Explorer.

July 17, 2025

Application-specific resource attributes are attached to your trace data when your App Hub applications use supported Google Cloud resources, or when you instrument an application with OpenTelemetry and use the Google Cloud Telemetry endpoint. To learn more, see the following:

• Application Monitoring overview
• View application telemetry
• Find and explore traces
• Telemetry (OTLP) API overview

May 07, 2025

Version 2.56.0 of the Ops Agent using the Prometheus receiver can fail to send metrics and report negative start times. To resolve this issue, downgrade to version 2.55.0. For more information, see Known issue: Ops Agent version 2.56.0 fails to send metrics.

May 06, 2025

When you create a snooze for a single alerting policy, you can now use resource, metric, and metadata label types to filter applicable incidents. For more information, see Create a snooze.

May 02, 2025

The limit for the number of widgets on a custom dashboard has increased to 100, from 40. For information about dashboards, see the following:

• Create and manage custom dashboards
• Install a dashboard template
• Import Grafana dashboards

February 26, 2025

You can now enable and disable the logging of uptime-check failures by using the log_check_failures field in the Cloud Monitoring API.

February 10, 2025

You can now use a variable to control the visibility of a dashboard widget. For more information, see the following documents:

• Create and manage variables and pinned filters
• Configure dashboard filters and variables by using the API

February 03, 2025

You can now create custom organization policies on alerting policies, notification channels, and snoozes. For more information, see Use custom organization policies.

October 14, 2024

You can now use the Monitoring API to configure a metric-based alerting policy to send notifications when incidents are closed. For more information, see AlertStrategy in the Monitoring API documentation.

August 22, 2024

Cloud Monitoring has ended support for the ingestion of AWS CloudWatch metrics by using AWS connector projects. This is a breaking change. For information about this deprecation, see Deprecations: AWS CloudWatch metrics in Connector projects.

You can continue to collect AWS CloudWatch metrics by using the open source Prometheus CloudWatch exporter and the Ops Agent. For information about this solution, see Collect AWS CloudWatch metrics by using the Prometheus CloudWatch exporter.

July 30, 2024

You can now troubleshoot Compute Engine issues involving host events, MIG autoscaling and health-check failures, resource-availability errors, and VM performance by using the new "interactive playbook" dashboards in Cloud Monitoring. You can access the playbook dashboards from the Dashboards page by selecting the GCP category or by filtering for "GCE Interactive Playbook".

July 09, 2024

Starting no sooner than January 7, 2025, Cloud Monitoring will begin charging for alerting. For information about the pricing model and examples of pricing scenarios, see Pricing for alerting.

July 03, 2024

Agent-installation policies for the Ops Agent are now GA. For more information, see Overview of agent policies for the Ops Agent.

May 29, 2024

Ops Agent version 2.47.0 introduces support for Compute Engine VMs that are running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat). For more information, see Operating systems.

May 09, 2024

You can now configure a logs panel widget to display log entries by log view. For more information, see Display logs and errors on a custom dashboard.

April 26, 2024

Broken-link checkers collect screenshots of failing tests in a Cloud Storage bucket. You can configure this feature to collect screenshots for all tests or disable this feature. For more information, see Create a broken-link checker.

March 28, 2024

Uptime checks now support authentication by using a service account and a generated OpenID Connect (OIDC) token, as an alternative to providing a username and password. For more information, see Create public uptime checks.

March 26, 2024

Duet AI in Google Cloud is now Gemini for Google Cloud. See our blog post for more information.

March 18, 2024

You can now use Duet AI for Developers to help you create a synthetic monitor. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Create a synthetic monitor.

February 12, 2024

You can now create a broken-link checker, which periodically validates the links contained in your website. This feature is GA. For more information, see Create a broken-link checker.

January 22, 2024

You can now create and manage your uptime checks and synthetic monitors by using the Google Cloud CLI. For more information, see Create public uptime checks and Create a synthetic monitor.

January 16, 2024

Announcing a common navigation pane in the Cloud console for Logging, Monitoring, Trace, and Error Reporting. When you are troubleshooting an issue, the new navigation pane simplifies accessing the pages you need to explore different types of telemetry:

• The Explore section list the pages to view and analyze telemetry data.
• The Detect section lists the pages you use to ensure that you are notified when errors occur.
• The Configure section lists configuration and management pages.

You can continue to use the search bar to locate pages in the Cloud console and to find documentation.

November 09, 2023

You can now display events, such as the crash of a GKE pod, on your dashboards. This feature is in Public Preview.

• For a list of supported events, see Events overview.
• For information about enabling events, see Show events on a dashboard.

November 07, 2023

Observability for Google Kubernetes Engine: The Observability tab for a GKE deployment now shows application performance metrics if the metrics are available. The supported metric sources include Istio, GKE Ingress, NGINX Ingress and gRPC and HTTP metrics collected by using Google Managed Service for Prometheus. For more information, see Use application performance metrics.

November 03, 2023

Synthetic monitors are now GA. You can create synthetic monitors by using Terraform, the Cloud console, and the Monitoring API. You can configure your synthetic monitors to collect log data and trace data. When you use the Cloud console, the generic and Mocha templates are available:

• For general information, see Synthetic monitoring overview.
• For information about creating a synthetic monitor, see Create a synthetic monitor.

October 02, 2023

The Metrics management page in Cloud Monitoring now lets you create alerting policies and charts for metrics that have no associated alerting policies or custom dashboards. For more information, see View and manage metric usage.

You can now import your Grafana dashboards into Cloud Monitoring. For more information, see Import Grafana dashboards into Cloud Monitoring.

September 29, 2023

Ops Agent versions 2.39.0 and 2.40.0 crash if you use them on Compute Engine VMs with attached GPUs. Use Ops Agent version 2.38.0, or versions 2.41.0 and newer, on VMs with attached GPUs.

September 07, 2023

Ops Agent version 2.39.0 introduces support for Compute Engine Arm VMs that are running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa). For more information, see Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs.

August 14, 2023

Version 2.37.0 of the Ops Agent introduces runtime health checks for errors in the configuration of logging pipelines and in parsing logs. These errors are reported to Cloud Logging. For more information, see Agent health checks.

Version 2.37.0 of the Ops Agent introduces GA support for an OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) receiver. You can use this receiver to collect custom metrics and traces from applications written by using OpenTelemetry SDKs. For more information, see Collect OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) metrics and traces.

August 10, 2023

PromQL alerting for Cloud Monitoring is in Public Preview. You can now use PromQL queries in your alerting policies. You can also migrate your Prometheus alerting rules to Cloud Monitoring alerting rules with a PromQL query, and migrate your Prometheus receivers to Cloud Monitoring notification channels. For more information, see Alerting policies with PromQL.

August 07, 2023

The Metrics management page in Cloud Monitoring replaces the Metrics diagnostics page, extending the information available about the chargeable metrics in your Google Cloud projects. For more information, see View metric usage and diagnostics.

Observability for Google Kubernetes Engine: Charts on the Observability tab for each of your GKE clusters and workloads now includes an optional fleet ID filter, where applicable. If the current project is a host project for a fleet, the cluster and workload charts show metrics from all projects in the fleet, even if the metrics are hosted in a different project.

July 26, 2023

Starting with version 2.35.0, the Ops Agent health-check log is renamed ops-agent-health; earlier versions of the Ops Agent that support health checks use the name ops-agent-health-checks.

July 20, 2023

We made improvements to the dashboard building experience:

• Improved the performance
• Simplified the layout and expanded the configurable settings
• Improved the widget drag and drop experience
• Enhanced the text widget
• Unified the chart-configuration experience between dashboards and the Metrics Explorer

For more information, see Add charts and tables to a custom dashboard.

July 17, 2023

You can now create synthetic monitors, which let you continuously test the availability, consistency, and performance of your services and application web pages and APIs, by using automated script based tests. Synthetic monitors periodically probe the endpoints of your application and they record whether or not a probe was successful, along with additional data about the request. For more information, see Synthetic monitoring overview.

June 09, 2023

A new version of Managed Service for Prometheus is now available. Version 0.7.0 of managed collection for Kubernetes has been released. Users who deploy managed collection using kubectl should reapply the manifests. Users who deploy the service using gcloud or the GKE UI are already upgraded on clusters running version 1.25 or newer. Self-deployed collection users should upgrade their binaries to use gke.gcr.io/prometheus-engine/prometheus:v2.35.0-gmp.5-gke.0.

For details about the changes included, see the release page on GitHub.

May 15, 2023

The new interface for creating charts with Metrics Explorer is GA. For more information, see Create charts with Metrics Explorer.

February 17, 2023

You can now install pre-defined alerting policies for services integrated with Cloud Monitoring from the Monitoring Integrations page and from the Observability tab on the pages for Kubernetes Engine clusters and workloads. For more information about these installable policies, see Install alerting policies.

January 10, 2023

Managed Service for Prometheus: Dashboards for exporter integrations are available and automatically installed when you configure the integration. You can also view static previews of dashboards without configuring the integration. For more information, see the exporter documentation at Set up commonly used exporters.

January 09, 2023

Charts defined by Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) now support dashboard-wide filters and can be configured to support template variables. For more information, see Create a permanent filter.

December 07, 2022

For public and private uptime checks, a new create flow is available in Public Preview. For private uptime checks, the Public Preview flow lets you create the Service Directory service and perform other prerequisite steps by using the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Create public uptime checks and Create private uptime checks.

November 11, 2022

Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for creating charts and dashboards in Cloud Monitoring is now Generally Available. For more information, see PromQL in Cloud Monitoring.

October 21, 2022

The Cloud Monitoring Integrations page now provides access to logs collected by logs-enabled integrations from the Details page for each integration.

October 20, 2022

Logs panels now display log entries on rows with separate columns for severity, the timestamp, and a summary of the log entry. You can click the View log details button to view the JSON-formatted representation of a log entry. For more information, see View logs on a custom dashboard.

October 13, 2022

SLO monitoring: You can now define a set of generic services by using the Service Monitoring API. This change streamlines integration with tools like Terraform. For more information about defining generic services, see Services.

October 04, 2022

You can now collect Oracle Database logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.22.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Oracle Database.

September 13, 2022

You can now configure public uptime checks to send ICMP pings as part of the check. The results of the pings are sent to Cloud Logging to help you troubleshoot failed checks. For more information, see Use ICMP pings.

August 17, 2022

Cloud Monitoring is introducing pricing for uptime checks, effective October 1, 2022. For more information, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary.

August 11, 2022

The Cloud Monitoring Integrations page now provides information about integrations with other Google Cloud services, enhanced filtering, and additional information about available third-party integrations. For more information, see Manage integrations.

August 10, 2022

You can now create uptime checks for Cloud Run public endpoints by using the Monitoring API and specifying the Cloud Run Revision monitored-resource type.

July 26, 2022

You can now collect Aerospike metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.2. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Aerospike.

July 15, 2022

You can now collect Flink metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.1. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Flink.

You can now collect SAP HANA logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.18.1. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: SAP HANA.

July 14, 2022

Log-based alerting is now generally available (GA). Log-based alerts match on the content of your logs. When triggered, a log-based alert notifies you that a match has appeared in your logs and opens an incident in Cloud Monitoring. The minimum autoclose duration for incidents is now 30 minutes. For more information, see Monitor your logs and Use log-based alerts.

June 24, 2022

You can now view the configuration of charts on a dashboard while the dashboard is in read-only mode. For more information, see Show the chart configuration.

June 03, 2022

You can now add, edit, and remove alerting policy user labels by using the Cloud console when you use the preview alerting interface. To configure policy labels, edit the policy and go to the Notifications and name step. For more information, see Create an alerting policy.

May 26, 2022

A new version of Managed Service for Prometheus is now available. Version 0.4.1 of managed collection has been released, along with v2.35.0-gmp.2 of the managed-service binary that v0.4.1 depends on (container image: gke.gcr.io/prometheus-engine/prometheus:v2.35.0-gmp.2-gke.0). For details about the changes included, see the release page on GitHub.

You can now collect IIS logs and additional metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with versions 2.14.0 (logs) and 2.15.0 (additional metrics). For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: IIS.

You can now collect Varnish logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with versions 2.16.0 (logs) and 2.15.0 (metrics). For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Varnish.

You can now collect Active Directory Domain Services logs and metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.15.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Active Directory Domain Services.

May 16, 2022

The pricing for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus has been reduced by 25-50%, depending on volume and usage. Existing pricing tiers have been reduced by 25%, and a new high-volume tier has been added at 50% of the current cost. For pricing details, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary, and for a set of examples, see Pricing examples based on samples ingested.

February 28, 2022

GA: Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus, Google Cloud's fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, is now generally available. You can use the managed service anywhere that you use standard Prometheus today. The collector retains all expected Prometheus functionality, such as local storage and rule evaluation.

Managed Service for Prometheus also offers managed data collection in Kubernetes environments, reducing the complexity of deploying, scaling, sharding, configuring, and maintaining the collectors. For more information, see Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.

February 22, 2022

Metrics Explorer and charts on dashboards have a new metric selection interface. For more information, see Select metrics when using Metrics Explorer.

You can now collect RabbitMQ metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.11.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: RabbitMQ.

February 14, 2022

You can now collect Apache Kafka metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Kafka.

You can now collect Elasticsearch metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.10.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Elasticsearch.

February 08, 2022

You can now view information about your user-defined metrics by using the Diagnostics tab located on the Metrics Explorer page. The Diagnostics tab displays summary information about the user-defined metrics your project injests, charts usage metrics, lists all user-defined metrics. You can use features on this page to create alerts, view audit logs, and get detailed information about individual metrics. For more information, see View metric diagnostics.

January 18, 2022

When you click on an entry in the Instances table on the Monitoring VM Instances dashboard, a sliding panel now appears with the instance details, replacing the VM Instance Details page.

January 07, 2022

Starting with version 2.8.0, the Ops Agent supports Ubuntu 21.10. For more information, see Linux operating systems.

You can now collect MariaDB metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.8.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: MariaDB.

December 15, 2021

The Slack notification channel for alerting is now generally available (GA). You can now test your connection from Google Cloud when adding new Slack channels. The notification has been updated with the latest template and now includes your resource, system, and user labels. For more information, see Creating channels.

December 14, 2021

The Pub/Sub notification channel for alerting is now generally available (GA). You can now test your connection from Google Cloud when adding new Pub/Sub channels. For more information, see Creating channels.

November 05, 2021

You can now collect Apache Web Server metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.7.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Apache Web Server.

You can now collect Redis metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.7.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Redis.

November 04, 2021

You can now create an alerting policy from the alert chart dialog on a custom dashboard, and you can create an alerting policy by converting a chart on custom dashboard to an alert chart. For more information, see Alert charts.

November 01, 2021

You can now collect Cassandra metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.6.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: Cassandra.

September 27, 2021

You can now install the Ops Agent on one or more Compute Engine VMs from the Inventory tab of the Monitoring VM Instances dashboard. The dashboard generates Cloud Shell commands you can use to install the Ops Agent (recommended) or the legacy agents (if needed) on the selected VMs.

September 09, 2021

You can now collect JVM metrics from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.2.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: JVM.

August 12, 2021

Cloud Monitoring now supports creating an uptime check against a Kubernetes LoadBalancer Service hosted on GKE. For more information, see Managing uptime checks.

August 09, 2021

When you create a line chart on a dashboard, you can now specify whether the selected metric is charted against the left Y-axis or the right Y-axis. This feature lets you display different metrics with different scales on the same chart. For an API example, see Dashboard with an XyChart and a threshold.

August 02, 2021

You can now use Puppet to install and manage the Google Cloud operations suite agents across your fleet of Linux and Windows VMs. For more information, refer to the Puppet Integration documentation.

July 12, 2021

You can now install the Logging and Monitoring agents on multiple VMs from the Inventory tab on the Cloud Monitoring VM Instances page. You can select multiple VMs in your fleet for agent installation. The page generates the necessary installation command and provides a link to Cloud Shell, where you can run the command.

July 02, 2021

Dashboard-wide filters now apply to all charts on a dashboard. Prior to this change, these filters didn't apply to MQL-configured charts.

June 30, 2021

The Monitoring dashboards page in the Cloud Console now includes a collection of sample dashboards. The sample dashboards provide support for many common applications. You can preview, install, and then customize these dashboards. For more information, see Installing sample dashboards.

April 19, 2021

Cloud Monitoring Workspaces are changing. Over the next few weeks, new capabilities are being deployed:

• A Cloud Monitoring Workspace will be created automatically for a Google Cloud project. This change replaces the manual creation process.
• The restriction that you can view the metrics for a project from only one Workspace is being eliminated. You'll be able to view the metrics for a project from multiple Workspaces.
• Navigation to a Workspace that manages metrics from multiple projects is changing. For information on this change, see Navigating to a Workspace.

April 16, 2021

The Cloud Operations for GKE monitoring dashboard now allows you to manage and display service-level objectives (SLOs) that you define for your applications. For more information, see the Managing SLOs section of the Observing your GKE clusters guide.

April 13, 2021

The Cloud Operations for GKE monitoring dashboard now provides a Metrics tab in the resource details panel. This tab also includes a menu option to create a new alert policy. For more information, see Observing your GKE clusters.

April 12, 2021

The dashboard save feature now displays the date and time of the last save operation. You can also disable and enable autosave. For more information, see Configuring dashboards.

The Cloud Operations for GKE monitoring dashboard now provides an Alerts tab in the resource details panel. This tab also includes a link to create a new alert policy. For more information, see Observing your GKE clusters.

April 08, 2021

The Google Cloud Ops Agent is now available in Preview. This agent combines logging and metrics into a single agent that is targeted toward specialized logging workloads that require higher throughput and improved resource efficiency. It supports both Linux and Windows Compute Engine VMs.

March 04, 2021

Compute Engine's VM Instances dashboard now provides an Operations menu. The "View metrics" menu option brings you to the Infrastructure summary dashboard in Monitoring. The "View logs" menu option brings you to the Logs Explorer page in Logging.

February 19, 2021

The Incident details page has been completely revised, making it easier to investigate and manage incidents. New features include a timeline of incidents, the addition of a chart with time-range controls and a link to Metrics Explorer, a log for recording the investigative history. For more information, see Investigating incidents.

November 09, 2020

Monitoring Query Language (MQL) adds Preview support for macros. For more information, see MQL macros.

November 05, 2020

Enhancements to the VM Details page. A new Event Timeline shows important events as bars on a timeline. Hovering over any event bar displays summary information about the event and provides a link to the Incident Details page for the event.

October 15, 2020

The Ops Agent is now available in Preview. Ops Agent provides a single agent to collect logs and metrics on Compute Engine instances.

Note that the Ops Agent uses new configuration files that are not compatible with the standalone Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging agents.

September 09, 2020

The API for creating and managing alerting policies is now Generally Available. For information on using this API, see Managing alerting policies by API.

May 20, 2020

Cloud Monitoring introduces an improved experience for viewing and managing incidents. Improvements include performance optimizations for Workspaces with large numbers of incidents, summary statics, and the ability to filter by alerting policy name, metric type, and resource type. For more information, see Incidents and events.

April 28, 2020

The 5.x version of the Cloud Monitoring agent for Linux is deprecated. Users are encouraged to upgrade their agents as soon as possible.

February 14, 2020

The Stackdriver Monitoring Dashboard API is now Generally Available. You can use this feature to programmatically manage your dashboards and charts. See Managing dashboards by API for documentation, and Dashboard for reference material.

January 31, 2020

Stackdriver Monitoring Agent version 6.0.0 is now available, and the release will gradually roll out to the various Linux distributions. This version is built on a fork of collectd version 5.8.1 and includes the following changes:

• drops support for various third-party integrations.
• changes the file path for configuring an HTTP proxy when installing the agent.

Stackdriver Monitoring agent version 6.0.0 is now available for the SUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Linux distributions.

January 13, 2020

Stackdriver Monitoring in the Cloud Console is Generally Available and is the default option. For a limited period of time, you also have the option to use the classic Stackdriver Monitoring Console. Your configuration information, such as uptime checks and alerting policies, is accessible and changeable, from the Cloud Console and from the classic Stackdriver Monitoring Console. For more information, see Monitoring in the Google Cloud console.

December 11, 2019

Legacy Stackdriver support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is deprecated. If you're using Legacy Stackdriver, then you must migrate to Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring before Legacy Stackdriver is decommissioned. For more information, see Legacy Stackdriver support for GKE deprecation.

December 09, 2019

The Stackdriver Monitoring Dashboard API is now in Beta release. You can use this feature to programmatically manage your dashboards and charts. See Managing dashboards by API for documentation, and Dashboard for reference material.

December 04, 2019

Stackdriver Monitoring in the Cloud Console is in beta release. Your configuration information, such as uptime checks and alerting policies, is accessible and changeable, from the Cloud Console and from the classic Stackdriver Monitoring Console. For more information about the beta, see Monitoring in the Google Cloud console.

September 10, 2019

When creating a new Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring is now the default Stackdriver support option. This is a change from prior versions where Stackdriver Logging and Stackdriver Monitoring were the default Stackdriver support option. For more information, see Overview of Stackdriver support for GKE.

March 15, 2019

Stackdriver agents are subject to an updated deprecation policy. As part of this transition, the next major version of the Stackdriver Monitoring and Stackdriver Logging agents will stop supporting operating systems that are at the end of their lifecycle, as well as some third-party agent plugins.

February 08, 2019

The Stackdriver Monitoring Agent now supports Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ("Bionic Beaver").

December 06, 2018

A mechanism to collect monitoring data from Prometheus clients, which can be deployed as a sidecar in the same Kubernetes pod as a working Prometheus server, is now available. See Using Prometheus for more information.

December 05, 2018

Documentation for using OpenCensus to capture custom metrics in Java applications is now available. See Custom metrics with OpenCensus for more information.

September 19, 2018

Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring (Beta) for Kubernetes version 1.10.6 and above, restores the managed support for Kubernetes Monitoring. You can also upgrade your existing clusters to this release, no matter which (if any) Stackdriver support they had before. Note the warnings about incompatibilities between the old and new Stackdriver support.

September 10, 2018

"Stackdriver accounts" have been renamed "Workspaces" to reflect their use as a "single pane of glass" through which you view resources from multiple projects and AWS accounts. There is no change in their functionality, but we have improved the documentation for them.

June 29, 2018

On July 1, 2018 at 00:00 PDT, Stackdriver switches to consumption-based pricing. For more information, see Stackdriver Pricing.

June 19, 2018

If you want to minimize the AWS permissions you give to Stackdriver, then see Minimal AWS Permissions.

May 24, 2018

Any Stackdriver free trials created after May 29, 2018 will expire on June 30, 2018. After June 30, 2018, free trials will be replaced with a free monthly allocation of logs and metrics. For more information about Stackdriver's new consumption-based pricing, see Stackdriver Upcoming Pricing.

May 22, 2018

You can now see your Monitoring usage metrics and estimate your bill for your usage of Monitoring, according to the new Stackdriver pricing and in advance of billing enforcement. See Estimating your bills for details.

May 11, 2018

If you are using custom IAM roles, any roles that load Stackdriver Monitoring dashboards now require additional IAM permissions. The monitoring.dashboards.* and monitoring.publicWidgets.* permissions are now public, and custom roles used to load dashboards must now include them. See Stackdriver Monitoring Access Control for more information.

March 08, 2018

The AlertPolicy and NotificationChannels APIs are now in Beta release. See Alerting policies and Notification channels for more information.

January 17, 2018

The name of the Monitoring agent process on Windows has been updated. It now shows up in the system process list as StackdriverMonitoring.

January 08, 2018

The performance of the Monitoring dashboards and charts has been improved. Additionally, a new version of Metrics Explorer is available, and the metric-selection interface has been greatly improved, allowing arbitrary label filtering and group-by functionality. This interface is also used for creating dashboard charts, making the process consistent across the two tasks. See Using Charts for more information.

December 14, 2017

Alerting events page: An updated implementation has required some user interface changes. The alerting events page (Alerting > Events) no longer shows a heatmap or counts of events in each category.

September 08, 2017

HTTPS(S) Load Balancer metrics are available in Beta release to use in Monitoring. For details, see the Google Cloud loadbalancing metrics and the https_lb_rule monitored resource.

July 10, 2017

IAM for Stackdriver Monitoring is now complete and GA. New IAM roles include Monitoring Editor and Monitoring Admin, and there is full support for custom roles. For more information, see Monitoring Access Control.

March 31, 2017

Time shifting (Beta): You can now compare your current metric data with data from 1 day, 1 week, or 4 weeks ago. See Compare to past in the Advanced options for line chart creation.

Faster user interface: Initial page load times have been reduced across the user interface.

Cloud Dataflow: Cloud Dataflow is now integrated with Monitoring. For more details, see the Big Data and Machine Learning Blog.

Monitoring agent: Although the statsd plugin is distributed with the Monitoring agent, there are not yet any instructions for using the plugin with Monitoring.

February 06, 2017

Process owner: When sending process metrics, the Stackdriver Monitoring agent now returns a stringified UID if the process owner name is not set. Previously, the agent would not send process owner information, which was then treated by the Monitoring API as malformed input and discarded. Available in stackdriver-agent/5.5.2-359. See Determining the agent version.

Lost input from the Monitoring agent: Malformed data from the Monitoring agent could cause Stackdriver Monitoring to lose well-formed input bundled in the same request. Now, only the malformed input is lost. You do not have to update your agent for this fix.

Selectable uptime check regions: Stackdriver Monitoring now lets you select the geographic region(s) that check your service.

December 12, 2016

Account IDs in URLs: Monitoring has added the Stackdriver account ID to its URLs. You can now open multiple tabs for different accounts and more easily share links with coworkers. URLs without the account ID use the most recently accessed Stackdriver account.

December 08, 2016

Incident pages (Beta): See Alerting > Incidents. Each open incident now has a detail page that collects a graph of the incident, links to affected resources, and the comments made on the incident.

October 20, 2016

API v3: The Stackdriver Monitoring API v3 is now generally available.

New metrics: New metrics are now available from Cloud Router, BigQuery, and TaskQueues (pull metrics). See the Metrics List.

September 11, 2016

The Google Monitoring API (v3) is now known as the Stackdriver Monitoring API (v3). This change does not affect any code.

June 09, 2016

The Stackdriver Monitoring API v3 reference documentation now includes code samples for each method. For example, see metricDescriptors.list. Sample Code will continue to be available on GitHub.

April 27, 2016

The documentation has been reorganized. The documentation landing page and the left-side navigation entries have changed. Existing URLs to individual documentation pages will be redirected if necessary.

March 23, 2016

You can now monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts alongside your Google Cloud projects. Read about Stackdriver Accounts and install the new monitoring agent.