Cloud Monitoring Cost Calculator
Estimate Google Cloud Monitoring costs for your infrastructure
What is Cloud Monitoring?
Google Cloud Monitoring is GCP's observability service that enables real-time collection, visualization, and analysis of infrastructure, application, and service metrics.
Key Components:
- Metrics collection (MSP and Non-MSP)
- Interactive dashboards
- Alerting system (PromQL/MQL)
- SLOs and error budgets
Use Cases:
- Microservices monitoring (GKE/Cloud Run)
- VM observability (Ops Agent)
- Managed Prometheus at scale
- Uptime checks and synthetic monitors
What is it for?
Visualization
Customizable dashboards and real-time metrics analysis
Alerts
Smart notifications based on PromQL/MQL thresholds and conditions
Uptime Checks
HTTP/HTTPS endpoint availability and latency monitoring
SLOs
Service Level Objectives and error budget management
Prometheus MSP
Managed Prometheus with high availability and automatic scaling
Ops Agent
Complete VM telemetry: CPU, memory, disk, and application logs
Use Case Examples
Pricing Model
MSP (Managed Prometheus)
Per ingested samples (samples/month):
- 0-50B: $0.060/M
- 50-250B: $0.048/M
- 250-500B: $0.036/M
- 500B+: $0.024/M
Non-MSP (Bytes)
Per MiB/month (150 MiB free):
- 0-100K: $0.258/MiB
- 100-250K: $0.151/MiB
- 250K+: $0.061/MiB
Alerting
Start: May 1, 2026
- Per condition: $0.10/mes
- Per series returned: $0.35/M
API Reads
Start: Oct 2, 2025
- Free tier: 1M series/mes
- Per series returned: $0.50/M
Uptime Checks
Endpoint availability:
- Free tier: 1M ejecuciones/proyecto
- After: $0.30/1K ejecuciones
Synthetic Monitors
Advanced synthetic monitoring:
- Free tier: 100 ejecuciones/cuenta
- After: $1.20/1K ejecuciones
Cost Calculator
Complete the questionnaire for each service or application you monitor. Add separate rows per service for more accurate estimates.
Service Configuration
Official Documentation
Official Google Cloud Monitoring documentation
Complete MSP guide and configuration
Pricing details and billing tiers
Alert cost optimization
Unified agent for metrics and logs
Centralized configuration management
Endpoint availability monitoring
Service Level Objectives and error budgets
Google SRE practical guide for SLOs
Information on API read charges
Cost calculation examples
Query language for alerts and dashboards
Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
GCP
Google Cloud Platform - Google's cloud services platform
GKE
Google Kubernetes Engine - Managed Kubernetes service on GCP
GCE
Google Compute Engine - Virtual machine service on GCP
Cloud Run
Serverless platform for containers with automatic scaling
Ops Agent
Google's unified agent for collecting VM metrics and logs