I have the doubt if the idles instances in app engine are billed in a different way, or as such they are not billed.
My doubt comes from the following. Observing in stackdriver the behavior of my instances, I see the following:

You can see that all day I've had an idle instance. But when I enter the app engine dashboard I see this:

Then why only bill me 4.18 hours of instance, if all day I've had an idle instance?
thanks for the help