Google Cloud Monitoring

 

• Cloud Monitoring collects metrics, events, and metadata, hosted uptime probes, and application instrumentation to gain visibility into the performance, availability, and health of your applications and infrastructure.

Features

• Collect metrics from multicloud and hybrid infrastructure in real time.
• Metrics, events, and metadata are displayed with rich query language that helps identify issues and uncover significant patterns.
• Reduces time spent navigating between systems with one integrated service for metrics, uptime monitoring, dashboards, and alerts.

Workspaces

• Cloud Monitoring utilizes workspaces to organize and manage its information.
• A Workspace can manage the monitoring data for a single Google Cloud project, or it can manage the data for multiple Google Cloud projects and AWS accounts.
• But, a Google Cloud project or an AWS account can only be associated with one Workspace at a time.
• You must have at least one of the following IAM role name for the Google Cloud project to create a Workspace:
  • Monitoring Editor
  • Monitoring Admin
  • Project Owner

Cloud Monitoring Agent

• The Cloud Monitoring agent is a collectd-based daemon that collects application and system metrics from virtual machine (VM) instances.
• The Monitoring agent collects disk, network, CPU, and process metrics by default.
• You can configure the Monitoring agent to monitor third-party applications.

Pricing

• Monitoring charges only for the volume of ingested metric data and Cloud Monitoring API read calls that exceed the free monthly allotment.
• Non-chargeable metrics and Cloud Monitoring API write calls don’t count towards the allotment limit.