Google Cloud Monitoring

7.2easy start · #22of 50
in Kubernetes Monitoring

Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on api, Linux, Web, Windows. Paid plans from $0.06/mo.

Google Cloud Monitoring is ranked #22 of 50 in Kubernetes monitoring on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, Web, Windows. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $0.06/mo.

Google Cloud Monitoring plans and pricing

All plans

Managed Service for Prometheus metrics $0.06/mo $0.06/million samples for first 0–50 billion; rates decrease by volume tier No free allotment listed cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

Pay-as-you-go Cloud Monitoring $0.26/mo Usage-based; $0.2580/MiB for first 150–100,000 MiB, then $0.1510/MiB for next 100,000–250,000 MiB and $0.0610/MiB above 250,000 MiB All non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics · First 150 MiB per billing account for metrics charged by bytes ingested cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

Uptime check executions $0.30/mo $0.30/1,000 executions 1 million executions per Google Cloud project included cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

Monitoring API read calls $0.50/mo $0.50/million time series returned; write API calls have no charge First 1 million time series returned per billing account included cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

Synthetic monitor executions $1.20/mo $1.20/1,000 executions 100 executions per billing account included cloud.google.com · 8 Oct 2026

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The record

Purpose: Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure.
Hybrid and multicloud: It provides automatic metric collection dashboards for Google Cloud services and supports hybrid and multicloud environments.
Dashboards and alerts: The service combines metrics, uptime monitoring, dashboards, and alerts, and supports custom dashboards and multi-condition alerting policies.
SLOs: Users can automatically infer or custom define service-level objectives and receive alerts when violations occur.
Synthetic monitoring: Synthetic monitors run automated script-based tests to track web application and API performance and can alert on faulty behavior.
Integrations: Monitoring alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, and the Cloud Mobile App.
Kubernetes and Prometheus: Managed Service for Prometheus supports managed and self-deployed metric collection for Kubernetes workloads.
VM agents: The Ops Agent collects logs and metrics on supported Linux and Windows virtual machines and includes integrations for third-party applications.
Security and access: Access to Cloud Monitoring is controlled through Google Cloud IAM roles and permissions.
Compliance: Google Cloud states that its services are independently audited for ISO/IEC 27001, and Cloud Monitoring is listed among covered software services.
Usage limits and charges: Monitoring charges can depend on ingested data, returned time series, uptime-check executions, and synthetic-monitor executions; free monthly allotments apply to several meters.
Supported environments: The Ops Agent is not supported on Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises machines.
API: Cloud Monitoring API v3 provides programmatic access to features including alerting policies, custom dashboards, and metrics scopes.
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States
Price from: $0.06/mo

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Kubernetes Monitoring in 2026#22 of 50
Best Metrics Monitoring Tools in 2026#14 of 34
Best Infrastructure Monitoring in 2026#11 of 28
Best Cloud Monitoring in 2026#9 of 21

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Sources

cloud.google.com/monitoring· checked 8 Oct 2026
docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/support/notification-options· checked 8 Oct 2026
docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/ops-agent· checked 8 Oct 2026
docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/access-control· checked 8 Oct 2026
cloud.google.com/security/compliance/iso-27001· checked 8 Oct 2026
cloud.google.com/products/observability/pricing· checked 8 Oct 2026
docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/apis· checked 8 Oct 2026