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You need a billing account to use Google Distributed Cloud Edge. For more
information about billing, see
Billing questions.
You can find pricing and SKUs for Distributed Cloud Edge
in Google Cloud SKUs.
If you use Cloud VPN, Google Cloud Observability, or any other Google Cloud product or
feature in conjunction with Distributed Cloud Edge, it is billed
separately to your Google Cloud project.
Billing for logs and metrics
Distributed Cloud Edge logs various types of information about
its operation, such as Distributed Cloud Edge system activities
and the workloads that you run on your Distributed Cloud Edge
clusters.
The following table describes the pricing for
collecting various logs and metrics on Distributed Cloud Edge.
Log type
Billing
Description
System metrics
Free
Metrics for Distributed Cloud Edge system activities.
System logs
Free for specific namespaces
System logs collected from the following namespaces are free:
anthos-identity-service
cert-manager
gke-system
kube-system
System logs collected from the following namespaces are billable
according to
Cloud Logging pricing:
gke-managed-metrics-server
metallb-system
nf-operator
sriov-fec-system
sriov-network-operator
vm-system
Application metrics
Billable
Billable according to Cloud Logging pricing.
Application logs
Billable
Billable according to Cloud Logging pricing.
Audit logs
Free
Cloud Audit Logs collected for
Distributed Cloud Edge operations.
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