Google Cloud monitoring with PRTG
Intelligent monitoring, maximum reliability of Google Cloud services
- Monitor Google Cloud platform infrastructure in real time
- Proactively detect potential problems and optimize performance
- Prevent DDoS attacks and other malicious activity
Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG
PRTG Google Cloud monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
Windows leads, Google Cloud Platform services navigate
While Windows remains the backbone of the enterprise network, GCP has an increasingly important role – from docs and file storage to simplifying the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Google Kubernetes engine for Devops and running virtualized services on Google Compute Engine.
So, yes. Windows might be the engine that powers your organization, but Google Cloud Services are the turbocharger. And that means they need to be monitored just as closely as other network components to minimize the risk of disruption.
With Paessler PRTG, you’ll always know exactly what’s going on with GKE, Google Compute Engine, databases like BigQuery, and other critical Google Cloud functions.
Specialized preconfigured sensors take care of monitoring APIs, application performance, availability, connectivity, and other key metrics 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, taking the effort out of optimizing performance and running a more efficient, stable, and reliable network.
PRTG makes Google Cloud monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent poor availability, bottlenecks, and other issues with your Google Cloud platform.
5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your Google Cloud monitoring tool
Automate Google Cloud monitoring: With PRTG, you can get a comprehensive view of your applications, virtual environment, and storage on Google Cloud to optimize costs, gain actionable insights, improve performance, and ensure security.
Simplify cloud management
Configure your monitoring environment in minutes and keep a close eye on Google Cloud services, without having to be constantly hands on.
PRTG monitors critical GCP metrics round the clock, alerts you if there's a risk performance thresholds will get breached, and aggregates your data in custom dashboards for one-click reporting.
Boost cloud performance
Data is power. Track Google Cloud infrastructure, including connections to and from GCP services and interactions with other systems in real time.
Gain valuable insights you can use to optimize performance, plan ahead, and ensure consistent uptime, speed, and network reliability.
Track your cloud storage
Monitor objects in the storage bucket, storage utilization, and change in object size with PRTG to get a better understanding of your Google Cloud Firestore and overall cloud storage.
This way, you can optimize your storage usage as well as your storage capacity planning, which will also make it easier to keep your costs in check.
Strengthen cloud security
Lock unauthorized users out of your network. PRTG sensors can monitor every aspect of network security – application performance, firewall logs, gateways, APIs, and more.
This enables you to proactively close loopholes and prevent DDoS attacks and other malicious authentication attempts.
Slash costs & save money
It's not only how many resources you have, but how you use them. PRTG builds a complete picture of your GCP footprint, so you can adjust and optimize on the fly.
If monitoring shows that your Google Cloud virtual servers run at full capacity only during business hours, for example, reduce them to a minimum in off-hours and thus save a lot of money.
What Google Cloud observability looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability, connectivity, and performance of your Google Cloud services. Show response times, user access, data flow, bandwidth usage, latency, and custom metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot all kinds of issues with your cloud environment.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom Business Process sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Start monitoring Google Cloud services with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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Mission-critical GCP data at your fingertips: PRTG has more to offer
Monitoring your ERP system with PRTG is the best way to stay on top of things and deal with problems before they cause real trouble and even become business critical. Here’s why PRTG is the ideal solution for you.
Custom thresholds & alerting
Set alerting policies in PRTG that suit your Google Cloud infrastructure monitoring needs best.
As soon as collected metrics exceed or fall below a defined threshold, PRTG notifies you visually using a clear traffic lights system and sending you custom notifications via SMS, email, push notification, and more.
Great visualization options
PRTG offers various visualization options such as charts, graphs, network maps, or dashboards. This way, you always have all important monitoring data on hand, including the availability of the Google Cloud Platform stack and resource usage.
What’s more: with our easy-to-use drag-and-drop map editor, you can easily create your own dashboards from scratch.
Cost-effective pricing
Google offers native monitoring capabilities that can, however, be tricky to set up and tend to get pricey as you start to scale. In comparison, our PRTG Google Cloud monitoring solution is not just cost effective but also very easy to set up and use.
You can also choose between different user interfaces, for example, smartphone apps for monitoring on the go – at no extra cost.
Your Google Cloud monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for Google Cloud monitoring
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
Common SaaS
The Common SaaS sensor monitors the availability of several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. It can show the following:
- Available services
- Response time of the SaaS provider (Bing, Dropbox, Facebook, GitHub, Google Apps, Office 365, Salesforce, Twitter, YouTube)
Cloud HTTP v2
The Cloud HTTP v2 sensor monitors the loading time of a web server via HTTP from different locations worldwide (Asia Pacific: Singapore, Asia Pacific: Sydney, Europe: Ireland, US East: Northern Virginia, US West: Northern California) via the PRTG Cloud. It can show the following:
- Average global loading time
- Response time of the target server at the location
- Response code of the target server at the location
- If the PRTG Cloud query was successful or not
Cloud Ping v2
The Cloud Ping v2 sensor monitors the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ping times to its parent device from different locations worldwide (Asia Pacific: Singapore, Asia Pacific: Sydney, Europe: Ireland, US East: Northern Virginia, US West: Northern California) via the PRTG Cloud. It can show the following:
- Average global response time
- Response time of the target server at the location
- If the PRTG Cloud query was successful or not
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG Google Cloud monitoring solution
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
Infrastructure and Operations Engineer in the Communications Industry, firm size 10B - 30B USD
PRTG makes Google Cloud monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent poor availability, bottlenecks, and other issues with your Google Cloud platform.
Monitoring Google Cloud: FAQ
What is Google Cloud?
Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services provided by Google. It offers a variety of tools and services for businesses, developers, and organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure on Google's global network. Here are some key components and features of Google Cloud:
- Virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing (e.g., Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions).
- Scalable and secure storage options (e.g., Cloud Storage, Persistent Disks, Filestore).
- Tools for managing network traffic and connectivity (e.g., Virtual Private Cloud, Cloud CDN, Load Balancing).
- Managed databases for structured and unstructured data (e.g., Cloud SQL, Firestore, Bigtable, Spanner).
- Data processing and analytics platforms (e.g., BigQuery for data warehousing, Dataflow for stream/batch processing).
- Integrated development environments and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Code).
- Monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging).
What is PRTG Google Cloud monitoring?
PRTG is a proprietary software tool that can track the health and performance of all the Google Cloud services and workflows your network depends on, including BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and other Google database services, cloud storage, persistent disks, virtual machines, and other cloud-based Google applications.
Available for Windows-based on-premises servers or as a cloud-hosted solution, it's capable of monitoring unlimited local, remote, and virtual devices, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere: at the office, at home, or on the go.
How does PRTG monitor Google Cloud services?
PRTG's preconfigured sensors integrate with Google Cloud Platform and collect data about key metrics for all the GCP services and resources on your network. The data is gathered in a centralized dashboard alongside all your other hardware and software metrics, creating a golden source of truth for your entire network's health and performance.
How do I set up Google Cloud monitoring in PRTG?
Once you download PRTG, the automatic network discovery does a lot of the work. Key in your preferred IP range and it will detect every network component in that range – including GCP services – and assign the appropriate sensors. Once that's done, you can pick your preferred performance thresholds. Just make sure you set the right permissions for the GCP account you want to monitor before you set up the sensors, or they won't be able to read the data.
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
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Over 95% of our customers say yes!
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
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Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
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English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing |
Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring |
Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
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Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
More than 500,000
sysadmins love PRTGMonitor your entire IT infrastructure
Try Paessler PRTG
for free
Start Google Cloud monitoring with PRTG and see how it can make your cloud infrastructure more reliable and your job easier.
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PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 25.1.102.1373 (January 9th, 2025) |
|
Hosting |
Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
Languages |
English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing |
Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring |
Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
Supported Vendors & Applications |
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