Cloud Monitoring - Alert Policy Costing/Pricing

Hello,

I’m trying to look for the cost specifically associated with the Alerting Policies in Cloud Monitoring. Is there any separate SKU associated with Alerting Policies under the Cloud Monitoring?

Hello @satishm ,Welcome on Google Cloud Community.

You are not paying for single Alerting Policy when you are using Stackdriver / Operation Suite. Your payment value will be based on:

  • Logging storage *
    One time charge for streaming logs. First 50 GiB/project/month then $0.50/GiB

Logging retention
$0.01 per GiB per month for logs retained more than 30 days except _Default log bucket

All Monitoring and chargeable metrics https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#metrics-charged-by-bytes / First 150 MiB per billing account is free then
$0.2580/MiB1: first 150–100,000 MiB
$0.1510/MiB: next 100,000–250,000 MiB
$0.0610/MiB: >250,000 MiB

$0.06/million samples****: first 0-50 billion samples ingested#
$0.048/million samples: next 50-250 billion samples ingested
$0.036/million samples: next 250-500 billion samples ingested
$0.024/million samples: >500 billion samples ingested

Monitoring API calls

First 1 million Read API calls included per billing account is free then $0.01/1,000 Read API calls.
(Write API calls are free) are always free

Execution of Monitoring uptime checks

1 million executions per Google Cloud project is free then $0.30/1,000 executions.

Execution of Monitoring Synthetic Monitors

100 executions per billing account are free then $1.20/1,000 executions

Alerting Policies - Effective date January 7, 2025

$1.50 per month for each condition in an alerting policy
$0.35 per 1,000,000 time series returned by the query of a metric alerting policy condition

More info about pricing for Alerting: https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#pricing-alerting


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DamianS
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