Cloud Monitoring quotas and limits

This document lists the quotas and system limits that apply to Cloud Monitoring.

Quotas have default values, but you can typically request adjustments.
System limits are fixed values that can't be changed.

Google Cloud uses quotas to help ensure fairness and reduce spikes in resource use and availability. A quota restricts how much of a Google Cloud resource your Google Cloud project can use. Quotas apply to a range of resource types, including hardware, software, and network components. For example, quotas can restrict the number of API calls to a service, the number of load balancers used concurrently by your project, or the number of projects that you can create. Quotas protect the community of Google Cloud users by preventing the overloading of services. Quotas also help you to manage your own Google Cloud resources.

The Cloud Quotas system does the following:

Monitors your consumption of Google Cloud products and services
Restricts your consumption of those resources
Provides a way to request changes to the quota value and automate quota adjustments

In most cases, when you attempt to consume more of a resource than its quota allows, the system blocks access to the resource, and the task that you're trying to perform fails.

Quotas generally apply at the Google Cloud project level. Your use of a resource in one project doesn't affect your available quota in another project. Within a Google Cloud project, quotas are shared across all applications and IP addresses.

For more information, see the Cloud Quotas overview.

To adjust most quotas, use the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Request a quota adjustment.

There are also system limits on Monitoring resources. System limits can't be changed.

Monitoring API quotas and limits

Category Maximum value

Limits to API usage

Category	Maximum value
Limits to API usage	To find the API quotas and limits, do one of the following: In the Google Cloud console, go to the Quotas dashboard page. In the Cloud Shell, run the `gcloud alpha services quota list` command.
Lifetime of API page tokens	24 hours

To find the API quotas and limits, do one of the following:

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Quotas dashboard page.
In the Cloud Shell, run the gcloud alpha services quota list command.

Lifetime of API page tokens 24 hours

Data retention

Metric data points older than the retention period are deleted from time series.

Category	Value
Retention of data points for some Google Cloud services, including most metrics within the following categories: Compute Engine metrics, prefix `compute.googleapis.com` GKE metrics, prefix `kubernetes.io` Cloud Storage metrics, prefix `storage.googleapis.com` BigQuery metrics, prefix `bigquery.googleapis.com`	24 months¹
Retention of all other Google Cloud metrics	6 weeks
Lifetime of API page tokens	24 hours

Resource groups

Category	Value
Number of resource groups per metrics scope	500
Maximum number of groups included in an email report¹	10

¹ When you configure Cloud Monitoring email reports, you can request information on utilization of your resource groups. Due to a limitation in the email reporter, the generated reports include information for only 10 groups.

Limits for synthetic monitors

Category	Value
Uptime checks per metrics scope ^*	100
Maximum number of ICMP pings per public uptime check	3
Synthetic monitors per metrics scope	100^†

^*This limit applies to the number of uptime-check configurations. Each uptime-check configuration includes the time interval between testing the status of the specified resource.
^†For information about how to increase this limit, see Request a quota adjustment.