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title: "Google Cloud Monitoring data source plugin for Grafana"
description: "Data source for Google's monitoring service (formerly named Stackdriver). Google Cloud Monitoring data source plugin for Grafana by Grafana Labs."
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> This is the Markdown version of https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/stackdriver/

# Google Cloud Monitoring

- Developer: Grafana Labs
- Version: 12.6.7
- [Change log](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/stackdriver/changelog.md)

# Google Cloud Monitoring data source - native plugin (formerly named Stackdriver)

Grafana ships with **built in** support for Google Cloud Monitoring. Simply add it as a data source and you are ready to build dashboards for your Cloud Monitoring metrics.

Read more about it here:

<https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/>
