Reduce Costs for the Managed Service for Prometheus

About this course

This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you will explore cost control mechanisms when utilizing the Managed Service for Prometheus on Google Cloud. The Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus charges for the number of samples ingested into Cloud Monitoring and for read requests to the Monitoring API. The number of samples ingested is the primary contributor to your cost.

What you will learn

• Understand how to reduce the costs associated with using the Managed Service for Prometheus
• Deploy GMP in a GKE cluster as well as a python application
• Reduce the number of time series metrics you send to the managed service by filtering the metric data generated