Google Cloud Monitoring
Google Cloud Monitoring provides comprehensive monitoring and observability for cloud infrastructure and applications. It collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud services, hosted uptime probes, and application instrumentation, enabling dashboards, alerting, uptime monitoring, and service level objective tracking.
Google Cloud Monitoring publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Projects API. Tagged areas include Alerting, Dashboards, Google Cloud, Metrics, and Monitoring.
The Google Cloud Monitoring catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Google Cloud Monitoring’s developer surface includes developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, authentication, pricing, support, and 14 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 1
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Google Cloud Monitoring Projects API
The Projects API from Google Cloud Monitoring — 7 operation(s) for projects.
Postman Collections 1
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Google Cloud Monitoring Projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONGoogle Cloud Monitoring API
OPEN COLLECTIONGoogle Cloud Monitoring API pricing
Prices published by Google Cloud Monitoring, read 2026-10-28 from cloud.google.com/products/observability/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Logging storage | $0.50/GiB Includes: First 50 GiB/project/month |
| Vended network logs storage | $0.25/GiB Includes: Not applicable |
| Logging retention | $0.01 per GiB per month for logs retained more than 30 days |
| Monitoring data (first tier) | $0.2580/MiB Includes: First 150 MiB per billing account for metrics charged by bytes ingested |
| Monitoring data (next 100,000-250,000 MiB) | $0.1510/MiB |
| Monitoring data (>250,000 MiB) | $0.0610/MiB |
| Managed Service for Prometheus samples (0-50B) | $0.06/million samples Includes: Not applicable |
| Prometheus samples (50-250B) | $0.048/million samples |
All 16 plans, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
- Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
- Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Google Cloud Monitoring's documentation. All 5 limits →
Billed by: million samples · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Google Cloud Monitoring Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Spectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Google Cloud Monitoring API — frequently asked questions
Does Google Cloud Monitoring have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Google Cloud Monitoring, including Google Cloud Monitoring Projects API.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Cloud Monitoring API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Google Cloud Monitoring, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Google Cloud Monitoring API?
Google Cloud Monitoring uses bearer-token authentication.
How much does the Google Cloud Monitoring API cost?
Google Cloud Monitoring publishes its prices; its Logging storage plan is $0.50/GiB as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 16 pricing plans for Google Cloud Monitoring, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Google Cloud Monitoring API ready for AI agents?
Google Cloud Monitoring has a Kin Score of 47.6 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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