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December 2020

Introducing Monitoring Query Language, now GA in Cloud Monitoring

Developers and operators on IT and development teams want powerful metric querying, analysis, charting, and alerting capabilities to troubleshoot outages, perform root cause analysis, create custom SLI / SLOs, reports and analytics, set up complex alert logic, and more. So today we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Monitoring Query Language (MQL) in Cloud Monitoring! MQL represents a decade of learnings and improvements on Google’s internal metric query language.

Introducing a new dashboard creation experience in Cloud Monitoring

Having good observability is vital to the health of your cloud infrastructure and applications, and a key element to using that information effectively is being able to create dashboards with relevant metrics. Today we are announcing a new dashboard creation experience from Cloud Monitoring that allows you to generate a greater variety of visualization types, introduces better flexibility for dashboard layouts, and makes data manipulation easier so you can create dashboards that better fit your needs.