At a glance
- Deployment
- saas
- Licence
- proprietary
- Categories
- observability platform, log management, metrics backend, tracing backend, apm, profiling, rum synthetics
- Ownership
- public · g-alphabet, g-gmp
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- no
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for Google Cloud. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.
| Line item | Unit | Commitment | List price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logging storage (all logs except vended network logs) | gb-ingested | on-demand | $0.5 | g-pricing |
| Vended network logs storage (VPC Flow, Firewall Rules, Cloud NAT) | gb-ingested | on-demand | $0.25 | g-pricing |
| Logging retention (beyond 30 days) | gb-retained-month | on-demand | $0.01 | g-logquotas, g-pricing |
| Log Router and Log Analytics queries | gb-processed | on-demand | $0 | g-pricing |
| Log Analytics via linked BigQuery dataset | gb-scanned | on-demand (BigQuery pricing) | Not stated | g-loganalytics |
| Monitoring data ingested by bytes - tier 1 | custom | on-demand | $0.258 | g-pricing |
| Monitoring data ingested by bytes - tier 2 | custom | on-demand (volume tier) | $0.151 | g-pricing |
| Monitoring data ingested by bytes - tier 3 | custom | on-demand (volume tier) | $0.061 | g-pricing |
| Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 1 | million-metric-samples | on-demand | $0.06 | g-gmp, g-pricing |
| Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 2 | million-metric-samples | on-demand (volume tier) | $0.048 | g-pricing |
| Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 3 | million-metric-samples | on-demand (volume tier) | $0.036 | g-pricing |
| Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 4 | million-metric-samples | on-demand (volume tier) | $0.024 | g-pricing |
| Monitoring read API (time series returned) | custom | on-demand | $0.5 | g-pricing |
| Uptime check executions | test-run-thousand | on-demand | $0.3 | g-pricing |
| Synthetic monitor executions | test-run-thousand | on-demand | $1.2 | g-pricing |
| Alerting policy metric references (from no sooner than 2027-09-01) | custom | on-demand | $0.35 | g-pricing |
| Alerting policy points returned (from no sooner than 2027-09-01) | custom | on-demand | $0.5 | g-pricing |
| Trace ingestion | million-spans | on-demand | $0.2 | g-pricing, g-tracequotas |
| Cloud Profiler and Error Reporting | flat-month | none | $0 | g-pricing |
How the estimate is built
The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.
| Component | Line item | Quantity | Free | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logs written beyond 50 GiB free (one project) | Logging storage (all logs except vended network logs) · per gb-ingested · on-demand | log_gib | 50 | |
| Prometheus samples, 0-50B | Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 1 · per million-metric-samples · on-demand | metric_samples_million | 0 to 50000 | |
| Prometheus samples, 50-250B | Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 2 · per million-metric-samples · on-demand (volume tier) | metric_samples_million | 50000 to 250000 | |
| Prometheus samples, 250-500B | Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 3 · per million-metric-samples · on-demand (volume tier) | metric_samples_million | 250000 to 500000 | |
| Prometheus samples, over 500B | Managed Service for Prometheus samples - tier 4 · per million-metric-samples · on-demand (volume tier) | metric_samples_million | 500000 to no limit | |
| Spans ingested beyond 2.5M free | Trace ingestion · per million-spans · on-demand | spans_million | 2.5 |
Example monthly bills
The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.
| Workload | Per month | Note | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $36.00 | Open Starter in the calculator→ | |
| Small | $258 | Open Small in the calculator→ | |
| Medium | $4,806 | Open Medium in the calculator→ | |
| Large | $47,463 | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What Google Cloud offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ai assistant nl query Natural-language query or chat assistant | Partial | g-ca-investigations, g-ca-overview |
| Ai root cause AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent | Partial | g-ca-investigations, g-ca-overview |
| Alerting Alert rules with routing/notification | Yes | g-conditions, g-pricing |
| Anomaly detection Statistical/ML anomaly detection on telemetry | Partial | g-conditions |
| Audit logs Audit log of user/admin actions | Yes | g-auditlogs, g-pricing |
| Byoc Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account | No | g-logrouting |
| Continuous profiling Continuous profiling | Yes | g-pricing |
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Yes | g-gmp-trouble, g-logrouting, g-pricing |
| Federated search Query data in place (object storage, other tools) without ingesting | Partial | g-loganalytics |
| Fedramp FedRAMP authorized (state level in note) | Yes | g-fedramp |
| High cardinality Designed for high-cardinality attributes without pre-aggregation penalties | Partial | g-gmp, g-monquotas, g-pricing |
| Hipaa HIPAA-eligible (BAA available) | Yes | g-hipaa |
| Incident response Native on-call/incident workflow | Partial | g-conditions |
| Llm observability LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations | Partial | g-appmon, g-relnotes |
| Logs Log management | Yes | g-logquotas, g-pricing |
| Mcp server Exposes an MCP server for agents | Yes | g-obsmcp, g-relnotes |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | g-monquotas, g-pricing |
| Multi destination routing Route one stream to several third-party destinations | Yes | g-logrouting |
| Observability as code Terraform provider / dashboards-and-alerts as code | Yes | g-terraform |
| Open format archive Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage | Yes | g-logrouting, g-pricing |
| Otel collector distro Ships or supports its own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution | Yes | g-gbotc, g-relnotes |
| Otel semconv native UI and features key off OTel semantic conventions rather than vendor fields | Partial | g-otlp |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Yes | g-otlp, g-relnotes |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | Add-on | g-sdp |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Partial | g-logrouting, g-pricing |
| Prometheus remote write Accepts Prometheus remote_write | Partial | g-gmp, g-gmp-self, g-gmp-trouble |
| Promql Query with PromQL (or a compatible dialect) | Yes | g-gmp, g-promql |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | No | g-opsagent, g-otlp |
| Rbac Role-based access control | Yes | g-logiam, g-moniam, g-relnotes |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | Yes | g-pricing, g-relnotes |
| Security siem SIEM or security analytics | Add-on | g-secops |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | No | g-gmp, g-gmp-self |
| Service map Auto-discovered service/topology map | Partial | g-appmon, g-relnotes |
| Slo management First-class SLO/error-budget objects | Yes | g-slo |
| Sql query SQL as a query language | Yes | g-loganalytics, g-pricing, g-relnotes |
| Sso saml SSO via SAML/OIDC | Yes | g-wif |
| Synthetics Synthetic monitoring | Yes | g-pricing, g-synthetics |
| Tiered storage Hot/warm/cold or archive tiers priced differently | Partial | g-gmp, g-logquotas, g-pricing |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Yes | g-pricing, g-relnotes, g-tracequotas |
| Usage cost controls Quotas, budgets, usage attribution to teams | Partial | g-budgets, g-pricing |
Sources
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