Question

Your team runs a fleet of Compute Engine instances that write custom application metrics to Cloud Monitoring. Operations reports that some metric data points are being rejected, and you suspect you are hitting a Cloud Monitoring API rate limit. You need to confirm current usage against the applicable limit and, if necessary, request more capacity. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

In the Cloud Console, open IAM & Admin > Quotas, filter for the Cloud Monitoring API service, review current usage versus the limit, and submit a quota increase request if you are near the ceiling.

Answer

Increase the Cloud Monitoring metric ingestion by editing the metric descriptor to raise its sample rate limit with gcloud.

Answer

Create a log-based metric that counts rejected data points and set an alerting policy; the alert automatically raises the API quota when triggered.

Answer

Upgrade the project to a higher billing tier, which removes all API rate limits for Cloud Monitoring.