Agent for Compute Workloads overview
The Agent for Compute Workloads lets you monitor and evaluate workloads
running on Compute Engine.
Once you install the agent on the compute instances that host your workload, the
agent collects metrics from your workload and instances, and sends
them to Workload Manager. After this, you use the evaluation service of
Workload Manager to evaluate your workload against industry best
practices and those recommended by Trusted Cloud. For more information, see
About Workload Manager evaluation.
Supported workloads
You can use the Agent for Compute Workloads for evaluating Microsoft SQL
Server workloads running on Compute Engine.
You can configure the agent to collect metrics from multiple workloads running
on the same Compute Engine instance. You do this by specifying each
workload in the agent's configuration file.
Supported OS versions
You can install and run the Agent for Compute Workloads on Linux and Windows
supported by Compute Engine. For information about OS versions supported
by Compute Engine, see
Operating system details.
Pricing
While you don't incur any charges for installing and running the
Agent for Compute Workloads, you might be charged for the metrics or logs
that the agent sends to your Trusted Cloud project.
For information about the cost you incur for sending logs to your
Trusted Cloud project, see
Cloud Logging pricing.
Agent codebase
To help you satisfy security requirements, you can view the source code of the
Agent for Compute Workloads in the following read-only GitHub repository:
GoogleCloudPlatform/workloadagent.
What's next
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Last updated 2025-08-26 UTC.
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