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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? 

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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

Metrics ingested by using Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus, including GKE control plane metrics*

$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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