Monitoring in Trusted Cloud versus Google Cloud

Cloud Monitoring collects and stores metric data that is generated by the Trusted Cloud by S3NS services that you use. This page describes the differences between the Trusted Cloud and Google Cloud versions of Monitoring.

For more detailed information about Monitoring, see the Monitoring overview and the rest of the Monitoring documentation.

You can find recommendations and best practices for using Monitoring in Trusted Cloud, including recommended alternatives where features differ from Google Cloud, in the Recommendations section.

Key differences

There are some differences between the Trusted Cloud version of Monitoring and the Google Cloud version. If you are already familiar with Google Cloud, we recommend that you review these differences carefully, particularly before designing an application to run on Trusted Cloud. We also recommend reviewing the general differences between Google Cloud and your universe in the Trusted Cloud by S3NS overview.

If you would like to use a particular Monitoring feature that isn't currently available in Trusted Cloud, contact Trusted Cloud support. To be notified when new features roll out in Trusted Cloud, subscribe to the release notes.

Workflows and tools

Cloud Monitoring API

API methods for the following are available:

  • Listing metric types.
  • Listing resource types.
  • Listing metric values.
  • Exporting metrics by using the Prometheus API methods.

All other Cloud Monitoring API methods are unavailable.
Collection of metrics

Metrics are collected for your Trusted Cloud by S3NS services.

The following are unavailable:

  • Collecting metrics by using the Ops Agent or the legacy Monitoring agent.
  • Collecting metrics by using any client library or open-source framework like OpenTelemetry.
  • Collecting metrics from on-prem or hybrid-cloud configurations.
  • Collecting Prometheus metrics.
  • Collecting custom metrics.
Monitoring services
(alerting policies, uptime checks, synthetic monitors) 		Unavailable.
PromQL queries Available
Visualization services
(charts and dashboards)		 Unavailable.

Recommendations

The following information might also affect how you use and design for Monitoring in Trusted Cloud by S3NS. These guides include general information about working in Trusted Cloud, including documentation, security and access control, billing, tooling, and service usage.

For details about other services and features in Trusted Cloud and their differences from their Google Cloud counterparts, see the product list.