Google Cloud's managed Prometheus backend on Monarch: collect with managed or self-deployed collectors, query with PromQL, billed per sample ingested.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Website
- docs.cloud.google.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Cloud provider monitoring checklist
6 of 10 confirmed in Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Cloud.
- Provider service metrics Yes
- Logs No
- Traces No
- Alarms Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Managed Prometheus or PromQL Yes
- Synthetic checks No
- Anomaly detection Not confirmed
- Multi-account views Yes
- OpenTelemetry ingest Yes
Metrics backend on Monarch: PromQL over Prometheus/OTel metrics plus 6,500+ free Google Cloud metrics, queries across up to 3,500 projects, alerts via Cloud Monitoring PromQL alerts or rule evaluator. Logs, traces and uptime checks belong to the wider Cloud Observability suite. Dashboards via Cloud Monitoring or Grafana.
Checked against: docs.cloud.google.com
Metrics and time-series databases checklist
9 of 10 confirmed in Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Metrics.
- PromQL or compatible queries Yes
- Prometheus remote write Not confirmed
- OTLP metrics ingest Yes
- Long-term storage Yes
- Clustering or high availability Yes
- Downsampling Yes
- Alert rule evaluation Yes
- Multi-tenancy Yes
- Built-in query UI Yes
- Managed hosted service Yes
24-month retention with downsampling; troubleshooting docs advise against Prometheus remote write in the pipeline.
Checked against: docs.cloud.google.com, docs.cloud.google.com (2), docs.cloud.google.com (3), cloud.google.com
Alternatives to Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
Other cloud provider monitoring tools. See all 11.
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Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor Alibaba Cloud's monitoring service for its cloud resources and hybrid environments, with metrics, event alerts and support for Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry data. -
Amazon CloudWatch AWS's native monitoring service: collects metrics and logs from AWS services and your apps, with alarms, dashboards, synthetic canaries and application signals. -
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Serverless, Prometheus-compatible metrics store on AWS: remote-write metrics from EKS or other clusters and query them with PromQL. -
DigitalOcean Monitoring Built-in metrics and alert policies for DigitalOcean Droplets and other resources, collected by a small agent, at no extra charge. -
Google Cloud Observability Google Cloud's suite (formerly Stackdriver) of Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace for metrics, logs, uptime checks and alerting on Google Cloud and other environments. -
OCI Monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's metrics and alarms service for OCI resources and custom application metrics, queried with its Monitoring Query Language. -
Scaleway Cockpit Scaleway's observability service built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, collecting metrics and logs from Scaleway products by default and accepting external data. - Azure Monitor Microsoft Azure's monitoring service for metrics, logs and traces from Azure resources and apps, including Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts and managed Prometheus.
- IBM Cloud Monitoring Managed monitoring service on IBM Cloud for metrics from infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, cloud services and applications, with dashboards and alerts.
- Longview Akamai Cloud (Linode) system graphing service: an open source agent reports CPU, memory, disk and network per process. Longview Pro adds 1-minute data and full history.