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# Cloud Monitoring documentation

[Read product documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/monitoring-overview)

**Cloud Monitoring** collects metric data and provides tools that let you monitor and visualize how your applications and services are performing.

To collect metrics data from your Compute Engine instances, [create an Agent Policy](/stackdriver/docs/solutions/managing-agent-policies) that automatically installs and maintains the Google Cloud Observability agents across your fleet of VMs.

To collect metrics from on-premises and hybrid-cloud systems and applications, we recommend using [ Bindplane](https://bindplane.com/google).

[Go to the Cloud Monitoring product page for more.](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring)

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##  Documentation resources 

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues. 

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### Guides

  * [ Quickstart: Collect Apache web server metrics with Ops Agent ](/monitoring/monitor-compute-engine-virtual-machine)

  * [ Create alerting policies ](/monitoring/alerts)

  * [ Configure notification channels ](/monitoring/support/notification-options)

  * [ Create synthetic monitors ](/monitoring/uptime-checks/introduction)

  * [ Create charts ](/monitoring/charts/metrics-explorer)

  * [ Select metrics for charts and alerts ](/monitoring/charts/metrics-selector)

  * [ Install the Ops Agent ](/monitoring/agent/ops-agent/installation)

  * [ Create metrics with the API ](/monitoring/custom-metrics/creating-metrics)

  * [ Configure a metrics scope ](/monitoring/settings)

  * [ More guides ](/monitoring/docs/monitoring-overview)




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### Reference

  * [ Google Cloud metrics ](/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp)

  * [ Anthos metrics ](/monitoring/api/metrics_anthos)

  * [ Kubernetes metrics ](/monitoring/api/metrics_kubernetes)

  * [ Agent metrics ](/monitoring/api/metrics_agent)

  * [ Monitored resource types ](/monitoring/api/resources)

  * [ REST API ](/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest)

  * [ API Method: projects.timeSeries.list ](/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/v3/projects.timeSeries/list)

  * [ Monitoring filters ](/monitoring/api/v3/filters)

  * [ Monitoring Client Libraries ](/monitoring/docs/reference/libraries)

  * [ More references ](/monitoring/docs/apis)




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### Resources

  * [ Quotas and limits ](/monitoring/quotas)

  * [ Release notes ](/monitoring/docs/release-notes)

  * [ Pricing ](https://cloud.google.com/products/observability/pricing)

  * [ More resources ](/monitoring/quotas)




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Use cases

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Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure ](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/courses/1129)

This one-day course uses lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to give you an overview of Google Cloud products and services so that you can learn the value of Google Cloud and how to incorporate cloud-based solutions into your business strategies. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Cloud Monitoring overview ](/monitoring/docs/monitoring-overview)

Learn how you can you can use Cloud Monitoring to collect and view performance characteristics of your system, how you can monitor the availability of your services, and how you can be notified of problems with your services. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Metrics, time series, and resources ](/monitoring/api/v3/metrics)

Learn about core concepts of Cloud Monitoring's model: monitored resource types, metric types, and time series. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Collect Apache web server metrics with the Ops Agent ](/monitoring/monitor-compute-engine-virtual-machine)

Learn how to collect and monitor metrics from an Apache web server installed on a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance by using the Ops Agent. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Get notified if your app stops responding ](/monitoring/monitoring-uptime)

Learn how to get notified if your application stops responding to HTTP requests. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ View and customize VM dashboards ](/monitoring/monitor-compute-engine-dashboards)

Learn how to view and customize dashboards for your Compute Engine VM instances. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Synthetic monitors ](/monitoring/uptime-checks/introduction)

Learn how to test the availability, consistency, and performance of your services, applications, web pages, and APIs. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ User-defined metrics overview ](/monitoring/custom-metrics)

Learn how you can create metrics that capture application-specific data or client-side system data. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ PromQL for Cloud Monitoring ](/monitoring/promql)

Learn how to use the Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) in Cloud Monitoring. 

Use case 

Use cases

###  [ SAP HANA monitoring agent user guide ](/sap/docs/agent-for-sap/latest/planning#sap_hana_monitoring_metrics)

By using Cloud Monitoring, you can build dashboards to visualize your SAP HANA metrics and set up alerts based on metric. 

SAP agent

Use case 

Use cases

###  [ Logging and monitoring on-premises resources with BindPlane ](/architecture/logging-and-monitoring-on-premises-resources-with-bindplane)

Describes the considerations and design patterns for using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and BindPlane to provide logging and monitoring services for on-premises resources. 

On-Prem API

Use case 

Use cases

###  [ Cloud Monitoring metric export ](/architecture/monitoring-metric-export)

Learn how to export Cloud Monitoring metrics for long-term analysis. 

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