Charges for GCP Metrics
GCP charges you for the metrics you collect. You can reduce costs by selecting only
the metrics that are most helpful and filtering out those that are of less
interest.
By default, the GCP requests data every five
minutes. Every collection cycle makes one Cloud Monitoring call per metric, for an
object.
For information about metric costs, see Google Cloud's
Monitoring Charges.
Based on the costs associated with running
the adapter, you can take advantage of some of the features that limit the amount of
data you collect from GCP.
- Turn off auto discovery and use manual discovery.
- Go toAdvanced Settingsand select only those services that are critical to your system.
- Subscribe only to specific critical regions.
- Use acceptlist and blocklist filtering to select object import by name.
- Use acceptlist or blocklist to selectively import specific service instances using instance names. Using regex, you can filter services by providing the partial name of the instance.