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Google Cloud Operations - Monitoring and Logging
As of 30 August 2026, Stackdriver is free to use. Stackdriver is Google Cloud's integrated monitoring, logging, and diagnostics service. Softwr lists it under Logging. Stackdriver is made by Google Cloud, launched in 2006, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Stackdriver does
Stackdriver is Google Cloud's integrated monitoring, logging, and diagnostics service.
What people use it for
- Application performance monitoring
- Log aggregation and analysis
- Cloud infrastructure observability
- Distributed trace analysis
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Stackdriver.
- Stackdriver is now branded Google Cloud Observability and cloud.google.com/stackdriver redirects to the Observability product page
- Cloud Logging charges $0.50 per GiB ingested, with only the first 50 GiB per project per month free
- Logs kept beyond 30 days cost an extra $0.01 per GiB per month on top of the ingestion charge
- Monitoring metric ingestion starts at $0.2580 per MiB, with only the first 150 MiB per billing account free
- Alerting policies are billed at $0.35 per month for each metric reference in the policy
- Uptime checks cost $0.30 per 1,000 executions and synthetic monitors $1.20 per 1,000 executions, with only 100 synthetic executions per billing account free
- Monitoring read API calls cost $0.50 per million time series returned beyond the first million per billing account
- Log volume is measured before indexing on the actual size of log entries, so verbose logging directly drives cost
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Pricing
What Stackdriver costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Log management
- Metrics collection
- Real-time monitoring
Capabilities
Features
Log management
Metrics collection
Real-time monitoring
Error reporting
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Google Cloud Observability (Stackdriver) cost?
Google Cloud Observability does not publish fixed subscription prices. The service uses a usage-based pricing model where you pay for actual consumption. Specific rates require visiting the individual pricing pages for Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.
SourceWhat is the pricing model for Cloud Logging?
Cloud Logging uses usage-based pricing charged per GB of logs ingested and per GB stored, with monthly free tiers included. Storage charges vary by retention period and location.
SourceHow is Cloud Monitoring billed?
Cloud Monitoring charges per custom metric time series per month, with a monthly free tier for metrics. Standard monitoring includes basic default metrics at no extra charge.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Stackdriver
- Company
- Google Cloud
- Based in
- United States
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