Quotas and limits

To ensure efficient operation, Stackdriver Monitoring imposes the following usage limits.

Custom metrics

Category	Maximum value
Active time series^1	100,000
Custom metric descriptors per project^2	500
Labels per metric descriptor	10
String length for label key	100
String length for label value	1024
Time series included in a request^3	200
Rate at which data can be written to a single time series	one point per minute
Histogram buckets per custom distribution metric	200
Prometheus^4-exported metric descriptors per project	10,000

¹ A time series is active if you have written data points to it within the last 24 hours. The number of active time series is recorded in the metric monitoring.googleapis.com/stats/num_time_series.
² This limit is imposed by Stackdriver Monitoring. Other services might impose lower limits.
³ You can write only one data point for each time series in a request, so this limit also functions as the maximum number of points that can be written per request.
⁴ Prometheus is a monitoring tool often used with Kubernetes. See Using Prometheus for more information.

Monitoring API quotas and limits

Category	Maximum value
Limits to API usage	See the API dashboard. Click an API and select Quotas to see your quota.
Lifetime of API page tokens	24 hours

Requesting more quota

You can request higher Stackdriver Monitoring API limits using the Google Cloud Console:

1. In the Quotas page, use the checkboxes to select Stackdriver Monitoring API, then click EDIT QUOTAS.

   Billing must be enabled on the project in order to click the checkboxes.

2. In the Edit Quotas panel, complete the form with your Name, Email , and Phone details, then click Next.

3. In the Edit Quotas panel, select the service to expand the view, then edit the quotas in that service to your requested limit. Click Done.

4. Click Submit request.

You can also contact Google Cloud Support to request more Monitoring API quota. The other limits are fixed and as detailed on this page.

For more information, go to Working with quotas.

Data retention

Metric data points older than the retention period are deleted from time series.

Category	Value
Retention of metric data points	6 weeks
Lifetime of API page tokens	24 hours

Resource groups

Category	Value
Number of resource groups per Workspace	500
Maximum number of groups included in an email report^1	10

¹ When you configure Stackdriver email reports (Workspace Settings > Email reports), you can request information on utilization of your resource groups. Due to a limitation in the email reporter, the generated reports include information for only 10 groups.

Workspace limits

A Workspace can contain up to 100 GCP projects. See Using Workspaces for more information.

Limits for alerting and uptime checks

Category	Value
Uptime checks per Workspace	100
Alerting policies per Workspace	500
Conditions per alerting policy	6
Notification channels per alerting policy	16
Notification channels per Workspace	4000
Simultaneously open incidents per alerting policy	5000

Limits for charting

Category	Value
Charts on a dashboard	25
Lines on a chart	300