Google Cloud Monitoring
Visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications.
Overview
Google Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. It collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components. You can visualize this data on dashboards and create alerting policies.
✨ Key Features
- Automatic metrics collection from GCP services
- Customizable dashboards and charts
- Powerful alerting on metrics and uptime checks
- Uptime monitoring and synthetic checks
- Service Level Objective (SLO) monitoring
- Integration with logging and tracing
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Native integration with GCP services
- SLO monitoring capabilities
- Managed service for Prometheus
Unique Value: Provides a comprehensive and integrated solution for monitoring the health and performance of applications and infrastructure on Google Cloud.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Monitoring CPU and memory utilization of a large fleet of Compute Engine instances.
- Alerting on high latency for a user-facing web service.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Log storage and analysis (better suited for Cloud Logging)
🏆 Alternatives
Offers out-of-the-box visibility into all GCP services without the need for extensive setup, providing a single pane of glass for observability.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Premium Support tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 90-day free trial
Free tier: Free monthly allotment for metric data ingestion (150 MiB), API calls (1 million), uptime checks (1 million), and synthetic monitor executions (100).
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