OTLP everywhere: Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol metrics

As part of our commitment to open standards, Google Cloud is deeply invested in making OpenTelemetry the universal client, data format, and set of standards for telemetry data. Last year we announced support in Cloud Observability for sending traces using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Today, we’re excited to announce the next step toward our goal of OpenTelemetry everywhere: Cloud Observability now supports OTLP for metrics in Cloud Monitoring! OTLP for metrics: More than just a new standard Using OpenTelemetry and OTLP lets you generate and send metric data to Google Cloud with a completely provider-agnostic pipeline: You can create OTLP metrics using the OpenTelemetry SDK, collect and transform them using the OpenTelemetry collector, and send that data directly to Cloud Monitoring in OpenTelemetry format. By default, this data gets stored in the same format as Managed Service for Prometheus data, at the same low price. This data is queryable using the same interfaces available to qu