Cloud Monitoring quotas and limits

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

• Quotas specify the amount of a countable, shared resource that you can use. Quotas are defined by Trusted Cloud by S3NS services such as Cloud Monitoring.
• System limits are fixed values that cannot be changed.

Trusted Cloud by S3NS uses quotas to help ensure fairness and reduce spikes in resource use and availability. A quota restricts how much of a Trusted Cloud resource your Trusted 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 Trusted Cloud users by preventing the overloading of services. Quotas also help you to manage your own Trusted Cloud resources.

The Cloud Quotas system does the following:

• Monitors your consumption of Trusted 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 Trusted Cloud project level. Your use of a resource in one project doesn't affect your available quota in another project. Within a Trusted Cloud project, quotas are shared across all applications and IP addresses.

To adjust most quotas, use the Trusted 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

Data retention

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