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title: "GCP Cloud Monitoring data source | Grafana Labs"
description: "Query GCP Cloud Monitoring directly from Grafana."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## How it works

[GCP Cloud Monitoring data source: Query GCP metrics directly from Grafana](cp-olly-gcp-monitoring-ds-light.svg "GCP Cloud Monitoring data source: Query GCP metrics directly from Grafana")

## What you get

| Capabilities              | Limitations                 |
|---------------------------|-----------------------------|
| All GCP service metrics   | MQL query learning curve    |
| Visual query builder      | API latency                 |
| Alignment and aggregation | Per-project auth typically  |
| Template variables        | Alert evaluation calls API. |
| Label filtering           |                             |

## Authentication options

Service account JSON key or workload identity

## Documentation

View the full documentation. *Learning path coming soon!*

[Cloud Monitoring data source](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/)