Error Reporting/Notification in Stackdriver?

[Don Seiler]

As I make my way around kicking the tires on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, I'm looking at monitoring and error reporting. It looks like everything is just handed off to Stackdriver, which is a totally separate service with it's own costs? It wasn't clear to me what reporting and notification is included with the Cloud SQL instance (if any). Otherwise it seems like a "gotcha" buried/hidden cost.

I'm curious to see what others might be doing in this space to get notifications based on monitoring thresholds or log metrics.

[Ani Hatzis]

The old pricing of Stackdriver that is valid until June 30, has a free Basic Tier. The new pricing has free allotment per month. For logging: first 50 GB per project, additional GB cost $0.50 per GB. In Monitoring all GCP metrics are free. Pricing for Stackdriver Trace will be changed later as you can see in the table.

Basically for most projects (with GCP resources) the free allotments should be sufficient. The new pricing page also explains how you can use logs exclusion and exports to reduce logs usage and costs. It also includes a tool to estimate future costs (if any).