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Google Cloud Observability

Integrated monitoring, logging, and trace managed services for applications and systems running on Google Cloud and beyond.

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Key features

Key features

Real-time log management and analysis

Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale and can ingest application and platform log data, as well as custom log data from GKE environments, VMs, and other services inside and outside of Google Cloud. Get advanced performance, troubleshooting, security, and business insights with Log Analytics, integrating the power of BigQuery into Cloud Logging. 

Built-in metrics observability at scale

Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. Collect metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components. Visualize this data on charts and dashboards and create alerts so you are notified when metrics are outside of expected ranges.

Stand-alone managed service for running and scaling Prometheus

Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, built on top of the same globally scalable data store as Cloud Monitoring. Keep your existing visualization, analysis, and alerting services, as this data can be queried with PromQL or Cloud Monitoring.

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, building and deploying agents introduces unique challenges. AI agents can drift, hallucinate, and regress silently, failing in ways vastly different from traditional software. Leverage Google’s proven enterprise security and governance framework, extended specifically for AI agents, to ensure end-to access and unambiguous traceability for every agent action with Cloud Trace.



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Documentation

Documentation

Tutorial

Observability documentation

View all documentation for Observability.

Tutorial

Get started with Cloud Monitoring

Learn about metrics scopes, the monitoring agent, uptime checks, and other features.

Tutorial

Get started with Cloud Logging

Guides and set-up docs to help you get up and running with Cloud Logging.

Google Cloud Basics

Monitoring and logging support for GKE

Learn about Google Kubernetes Engine’s native integration with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.

Architecture

Google Cloud metrics

See which metrics Cloud Monitoring supports.

Tutorial

Hands-on labs: Google Cloud Observability

In this skill badge, you’ll learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud Observability to generate insights into the health of your applications.

Tutorial

Dashboard API: Build your own Cloud Monitoring dashboard

Tips for shareable and reusable dashboard creation.

Tutorial

Cloud Audit Logs

Learn how Cloud Audit Logs maintains three audit logs: admin activity, data access, and system event.

Architecture

Hybrid and multi-cloud deployments

This document discusses monitoring and logging architectures for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

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Release notes
Read about the latest releases for Observability

Use cases

Use cases

Use case
Monitor your infrastructure

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.

On left, Cloud Logging flows to 3 boxes: 1) “Log Viewer: View, query, and analyze logs box” 2) “Create log-based metrics and set up alerts” 3) “Long Sinks: Manage retention and set up policies.” On right, Cloud Monitoring flows into 3 boxes: 1) “Charts and dashboards” 2) “Alerts and notifications” 3) “SLO monitoring and uptime checks”
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All features

All features

Pricing

Pricing

The pricing for Google Cloud Observability lets you control your usage and spending. Google Cloud Observability 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.

Cloud Logging

Feature

Price

Free allotment per month

Effective date

Logging storage1


$0.50/GiB;

One-time charge for streaming logs into log bucket storage for indexing, querying, and analysis; includes up to 30 days of storage in log buckets. No additional charges for querying and analyzing log data.

First 50 GiB/project/month

July 1, 2018

Logging retention2

$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 retention cost.

April 1, 2023

Log Router3

No additional charge

Not applicable

Not applicable

Log Analytics4

No additional charge

Not applicable

Not applicable

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

Price

Free allotment per month

Effective date

Prometheus-format Monitoring data, such as most OTLP metrics and metrics ingested by using Managed Service for Prometheus

$0.060/million samples†: first 0-50 billion samples ingested#

$0.048/million samples: next 50-250 billion samples ingested

$0.036/million samples: next 250-500 billion samples ingested

$0.024/million samples: >500 billion samples ingested

Not applicable

August 8, 2023

All other Monitoring data

$0.2580/MiB6: 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

Monitoring API calls

No charge for write API calls

Read API calls: $0.50/million time series returned♥

Write API calls: Not applicable

Read API calls: First 1 million time series returned per billing account

October 2, 2025

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 through October 1, 2025

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

Alerting policies

$0.35 per month for each metric reference in an alerting policy

$0.50 per 1,000,000 points returned by the query of a metric alerting policy condition♣

Not applicable

September 1, 2026

Cloud Trace

1 Storage volume counts the actual size of the log entries prior to indexing. There are no storage charges for logs stored in the Required log bucket.

2 There are no retention charges for logs stored in the _Required log bucket, which has a fixed retention period of 400 days.

3 Log routing is defined as forwarding received logs to a supported destination. Destination charges might apply to routed logs.

4 There is no charge to upgrade a log bucket to use Log Analytics or to issue SQL queries from the Log Analytics page.

Note: The pricing language for Cloud Logging changed on July 19, 2023; however, the free allotments and the rates haven't changed. Your bill might refer to the old pricing language.

6 For pricing purposes, all units are treated as binary measures, for example, as mebibytes (MiB, or 220 bytes) or gibibytes (GiB, or 230 bytes).

# 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.

† Prometheus-format data, such as that emitted by Managed Service for Prometheus, is metered based on samples ingested instead of bytes to align with Prometheus' conventions. The Monitoring API is used to retrieve all metric data, including Prometheus-format data. For more information about sample-based metering, see Pricing for controllability and predictability. For computational examples, see Pricing examples based on samples ingested.

♥ There is no charge for read API calls issued through the Google API Console, excluding those issued through the Cloud Shell. Read API calls that aren't issued through the Google API Console and that can return time-series data are charged by the number of time series that are returned or for one time series, which ever is larger. There is no charge for other read API calls. For more information, see Cloud Monitoring API pricing.

♣ For more information, see Pricing for alerting.

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