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Use cases
Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring provide your IT Ops/SRE/DevOps teams with out-of-the box observability needed to monitor your infrastructure and applications. Cloud Logging automatically ingests Google Cloud audit and platform logs so that you can get started right away. Cloud Monitoring provides a view of all Google Cloud metrics at zero cost and integrates with a variety of providers for non Google Cloud monitoring.
Reduce Mean Time to Recover (MTTR) and optimize your application’s performance with the full suite of cloud ops tools. Use dashboards to gain insights into your applications with both service and custom application metrics. Use Monitoring SLOs and alerting to help identify errors.
All features
| Log management | Log Router allows customers to control where logs are sent. All logs, including audit logs, platform logs, and user logs, are sent to the Cloud Logging API where they pass through the log router. The log router checks each log entry against existing rules to determine which log entries to discard, which to ingest, and which to include in exports. |
| Proactive monitoring | Cloud Monitoring allows you to create alerting policies to notify you when metrics, health check results, and uptime check results meet specified criteria. Integrated with a wide variety of notification channels, including Slack and PagerDuty. |
| Prometheus as a managed service | Offload the scaling and management of Prometheus infrastructure, updates, storage, and more with Managed Service for Prometheus. Avoid vendor lock-in and keep all of the open source tools you use today for visualization, alerting, and analysis of Prometheus metrics. |
| Custom visualization | Cloud Monitoring provides default out-of-the-box dashboards and allows you to define custom dashboards with powerful visualization tools to suit your needs. |
| Health check monitoring | Cloud Monitoring provides uptime checks to web applications and other internet-accessible services running on your cloud environment. You can configure uptime checks associated with URLs, groups, or resources, such as instances and load balancers. |
| Service monitoring | Service Monitoring provides out-of-the-box telemetry and dashboards that allow troubleshooting in context through topology and context graphs, plus automation of health monitoring through SLOs and error budget management. |
| Latency management | Cloud Trace provides latency sampling and reporting for App Engine, including per-URL statistics and latency distributions. |
| Performance and cost management | Cloud Profiler provides continuous profiling of resource consumption in your production applications, helping you identify and eliminate potential performance issues. |
| Security management | Cloud Audit Logs provides near real-time user activity visibility across Google Cloud. |
Pricing
The pricing for Google Cloud's operations suite lets you control your usage and spending. Google Cloud's operations suite products are priced by data volume or usage. You can use the free data usage allotments to get started with no upfront fees or commitments.
| Feature | Price | Free allotment per month | Effective date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logging ingestion | $0.50/GiB1 for logs ingested; this one-time ingestion fee includes up to 30 days of storage | First 50 GiB/project | July 1, 2018 |
| Logging storage | $0.01 per GiB per month for logs retained more than 30 days; billed monthly according to retention | Logs retained for the default retention period don't incur a storage cost | July 1, 2018 |
| Feature | Price | Free allotment per month | Effective date |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Monitoring data except data ingested by using Managed Service for Prometheus | $0.2580/MiB: first 150–100,000 MiB $0.1510/MiB: next 100,000–250,000 MiB $0.0610/MiB: >250,000 MiB | All non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics First 150 MiB per billing account for metrics charged by bytes ingested | July 1, 2018 |
| Metrics ingested by using Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus, including GKE control plane metrics | $0.15/million samples†: first 0-50 billion samples ingested# $0.12/million samples: next 50-250 billion samples ingested $0.09/million samples: next 250-500 billion samples ingested $0.06/million samples: >500 billion samples ingested | Not applicable | May 16, 2022 |
| Monitoring data ingested by using GKE workload metrics | GKE workload metrics is deprecated and removed in GKE 1.24; during the deprecation period, ingestion of GKE workload metrics is not charged | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Monitoring API calls | $0.01/1,000 Read API calls (Write API calls are free) | First 1 million Read API calls included per billing account | July 1, 2018 |
| Execution of Monitoring uptime checks | $0.30/1,000 executions‡ | 1 million executions per Google Cloud project | October 1, 2022 |
| Execution of Monitoring synthetic monitors | $1.20/1,000 executions* | 100 executions per billing account | November 1, 2023 |
| Feature | Price | Free allotment per month | Effective date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trace ingestion | $0.20/million spans | First 2.5 million spans | November 1, 2018 |
1 For pricing purposes, all units are treated as binary measures, for example, as mebibytes (MiB, or 220 bytes) or gibibytes (GiB, or 230 bytes).
† Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus uses Cloud Monitoring storage for externally created metric data and uses the Monitoring API to retrieve that data. Managed Service for Prometheus meters based on samples ingested instead of bytes to align with Prometheus' conventions. For more information about sample-based metering, see Pricing for controllability and predictability. For computational examples, see Pricing examples based on samples ingested.
# Samples are counted per billing account.
‡ Executions are charged to the billing account in which they are defined. For more information, see Pricing for uptime-check execution.
* Executions are charged to the billing account in which they are defined. For each execution, you might incur additional charges from other Google Cloud services, including services such as Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Logging. For information about these additional charges, see the pricing document for the respective Google Cloud service.
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