This document describes what metrics are automatically available to you when you use Google Cloud services.
These metrics are a key component of your system's overall observability.
Metrics from Google Cloud services
System metrics generated by Google Cloud services are automatically collected and stored by Cloud Monitoring. These metrics provide information about how the service is operating. For example, Compute Engine reports over 25 unique metrics for each virtual machine (VM) instance.
For a complete list of available system metrics, see Google Cloud metrics.