What is Google Cloud Observability used for?

Google Cloud Observability is a Google Cloud's set of logging, monitoring, tracing and error reporting services for applications and infrastructure. It is a good fit for monitoring workloads on Google Cloud and tracing latency across services.

Is Google Cloud Observability free?

Yes. Google Cloud Observability has a free plan. Usage-priced with free monthly allotments. Logging storage is $0.50 per GiB, Monitoring starts at $0.258 per MiB, and Trace ingestion is $0.20 per million spans.

Is Google Cloud Observability open source?

No. Google Cloud Observability is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Google Cloud Observability include SigNoz, Grafana Loki and Jaeger.

What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Observability?

Google Cloud Observability competes with Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and Datadog. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Google Cloud Observability alternatives.

Google Cloud Observability: pricing and alternatives

About Google Cloud Observability

Google Cloud Observability is the group of operations services on Google Cloud, formerly known as the Stackdriver suite. It covers logging, monitoring, tracing and error reporting, so teams can see how applications and infrastructure behave without running their own monitoring stack.

It is a proprietary, vendor-hosted Google Cloud offering with no self-hosted edition. The services work with Google Cloud resources by default and can also receive data from other environments, and Google documents current capabilities, quotas and pricing on its site.

Key features

Centralized log collection and search
Metrics monitoring and alerting
Distributed tracing across services
Error reporting for applications
Native integration with Google Cloud

Good fit for

→Monitoring workloads on Google Cloud
→Tracing latency across services

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Google Cloud Observability: questions and answers

What is Google Cloud Observability used for?: Google Cloud Observability is a Google Cloud's set of logging, monitoring, tracing and error reporting services for applications and infrastructure. It is a good fit for monitoring workloads on Google Cloud and tracing latency across services.
Is Google Cloud Observability free?: Yes. Google Cloud Observability has a free plan. Usage-priced with free monthly allotments. Logging storage is $0.50 per GiB, Monitoring starts at $0.258 per MiB, and Trace ingestion is $0.20 per million spans.
Is Google Cloud Observability open source?: No. Google Cloud Observability is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Google Cloud Observability include SigNoz, Grafana Loki and Jaeger.
What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Observability?: Google Cloud Observability competes with Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and Datadog. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Google Cloud Observability alternatives.