Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

6.6easy start · #26of 34
in Metrics Monitoring Tools

Free to practise onno
Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workno

Runs on api, Linux, self-hosted, Web. Paid plans from $0.50/mo.

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is ranked #26 of 34 in metrics monitoring tools on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $0.50/mo.

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus plans and pricing

All plans

Monitoring API read calls $0.50/mo Write API calls have no charge; read API calls are charged by time series returned. First 1 million time series returned per billing account each month are free · No charge for read API calls issued through the Google Cloud console, excluding Cloud Shell cloud.google.com · 7 Oct 2026

Metrics ingestion By samples ingested; sample counts are per billing account. No free allotment per month · 24-month retention at no additional charge cloud.google.com · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on metrics monitoring tools

Free plan: No
Data retention: 730 days
Custom metrics: Yes
Query language: promql
Data ingestion: multiple
Self-hosted option: Yes
SLO tracking: Yes

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The record

Purpose: It is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service built on Google Cloud’s globally scalable data store.
Retention: Metrics are stored for two years at no additional charge.
Global queries: The service supports global queries over regionalized data.
Collectors: Customers can use managed collectors that are automatically deployed, scaled, sharded, configured, and maintained, or use self-deployed collectors.
PromQL and dashboards: Prometheus metrics can be queried with PromQL in Cloud Monitoring and viewed with Cloud Monitoring dashboards, alerting, and SLO monitoring features.
Integrations: The service supports querying with Grafana and the Prometheus HTTP API, and can be used with the Ops Agent to collect Prometheus metrics from virtual machines.
External environments: Self-deployed collectors can collect metrics from applications outside Google Cloud, including Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments such as virtual machines.
Rule evaluation: The service supports a stand-alone global rule evaluator for existing recording and alerting rules against global data.
Support and agreements: As part of Cloud Monitoring, the service inherits certain agreements and certifications, including the Operations Service Level Agreement, US DISA and FedRAMP compliance levels, and VPC Service Controls support.
Limits: The minimum scrape interval is five seconds, and stored data is downsampled after one week at full granularity and again after the following five weeks.
Intended users: Google describes use cases that include monitoring Kubernetes, serverless, and virtual machine deployments with Prometheus and PromQL.
Price from: $0.50/mo

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Metrics Monitoring Tools in 2026#26 of 34

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Sources

cloud.google.com/managed-prometheus· checked 7 Oct 2026
docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/managed-prometheus· checked 7 Oct 2026
cloud.google.com/products/observability/pricing· checked 7 Oct 2026