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agent needs to be installed in each VM to monitor specific metrics. The pricing model is confusing.
Google Cloud Operations Suite has 4 pricing edition(s), from $0.01 to $0.50. Look at different pricing editions below and read more information about the product here to see which one is right for you.
Monitoring API Calls$0.01Cloud per 1,000 read API calls | Trace Ingestion$0.20Cloud per million spans | Monitoring Data$0.26Cloud per MB | Logging Data$0.50Cloud per GB |