Google Cloud Monitoring free tier includes Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month… Not verified — our last read, on 2026-09-20, found a change we could not reconcile. Compare with 42 alternatives in Monitoring.

Google Cloud Monitoring Free Tier 2026

Subtypes in Monitoring: metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product; uptime_check — polls a URL or host from outside your infrastructure on a fixed interval and alerts when it stops answering; it runs no code of yours; synthetic_check — runs a check you author — a scripted browser session, a multi-step API call, or an assertion on a response body — on a schedule from outside your infrastructure, and reports whether the behaviour it asserts still holds. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/pricing, where it says: “Execution of Monitoring Synthetic Monitors $1.20/1,000 executions” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 42 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-20.

Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier offers Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month… When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms and are not rating this offer today.

One of 59 Monitoring services we track. See our full Monitoring Free Tier Comparison →
Tier
Always Free
Category
Pricing Page
Catalogue date
2026-08-18
Last read
2026-09-20
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-09-20, found the page different from the terms we hold. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-18 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.

Free Tier Details

Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources

When You'll Outgrow Google Cloud Monitoring's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for Google Cloud Monitoring — but when we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.

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Alternatives in Monitoring

How Google Cloud Monitoring compares against every one of the 42 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
Google Cloud Monitoring Always Free unrated
SigNoz Free OSS stable
Grafana Cloud Free stable
Middleware.io Free stable
Elastic Free OSS unrated
phare.io Free stable
Uptimia Free stable
MonitorMonk Free stable
New Relic Free stable
uptimetoolbox.com Free caution
Grafana Free OSS stable
syagent.com Free stable
skylight.io Free stable
StatusCake Free stable
Cronitor Hacker unrated
Sematext Basic (Free) stable
Sentry Developer stable
Axiom Personal stable
bleemeo.com Free unrated
Hyperping Free stable
Simple Observability Free stable
SweetUptime Free stable
OnlineOrNot Free stable
360 Monitoring Lite stable
netdata.cloud Free stable
BetterStack Free stable
Pingmeter.com Free stable
UptimeRobot Free unrated
AppSignal Free caution
Pulsetic Free stable
Datadog Free stable
pingbreak.com Free source unconfirmed
assertible.com Free source unconfirmed
downtimemonkey.com Free source unconfirmed
UptimeObserver.com Free source unconfirmed
pingpong.one Free source unconfirmed
inspector.dev Free source unconfirmed
Servervana Free source unconfirmed
Jaeger Free OSS source unconfirmed
sitesure.net Free source unconfirmed
Prometheus Free OSS source unconfirmed
Xitoring.com Free risky
fivenines.io Trial risky

Left out of this list: Healthchecks.io (shares no subtype with this product), PagerDuty (shares no subtype with this product), incident.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusPile (shares no subtype with this product), Core Web Vitals History (none of this category's subtypes apply), deadmanssnitch.com (shares no subtype with this product), economize.cloud (none of this category's subtypes apply), incidenthub.cloud (shares no subtype with this product), linkok.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), loader.io (none of this category's subtypes apply), OntarioNet.ca CN Test (none of this category's subtypes apply), pagecrawl.io (shares no subtype with this product), pagertree.com (shares no subtype with this product), robusta.dev (none of this category's subtypes apply), statusgator.com (shares no subtype with this product), Wachete (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in Monitoring, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The list above is every one of the 42 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
alternatives:Monitoring:Google Cloud Monitoring
seed
551f4bc6375b6dd50ccb8cbfdfdd34883ff4c67838912dd0d2bab0d6f4110067
tie_count
29

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Google Cloud Monitoring free?
We cannot confirm that today. When we last read the page we cite for Google Cloud Monitoring, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. Our stored record says Google Cloud Monitoring offers a free tier: Always Free. Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
What is Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier?
We cannot confirm that today. When we last read the page we cite for Google Cloud Monitoring, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. Our stored record calls Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier "Always Free". Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
Is Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier reliable?
When we last read the page we cite for Google Cloud Monitoring, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it.
Is Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier good for production?
Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier is usable for prototyping and development. When we last read the page we cite for Google Cloud Monitoring, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it.
What changed in Google Cloud Monitoring's pricing?
When we last read the page we cite for Google Cloud Monitoring, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. We publish no change we refused to record, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed.
What are the best free alternatives to Google Cloud Monitoring?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 42 free alternatives to Google Cloud Monitoring in Monitoring, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 29 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 13 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Google Cloud Monitoring's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Google Cloud Monitoring in?
Google Cloud Monitoring is categorized under Monitoring on AgentDeals. We list 42 other Monitoring services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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