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You need a billing account to use Google Distributed Cloud. For more
information about billing, see
Billing questions.
You can find pricing and SKUs for Distributed Cloud
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, it is billed
separately to your Google Cloud project.
Billing for logs and metrics
Distributed Cloud logs various types of information about
its operation, such as Distributed Cloud system activities
and the workloads that you run on your Distributed Cloud
clusters.
The following table describes the pricing for
collecting various logs and metrics on Distributed Cloud.
Log type
Billing
Description
System metrics
Free
Metrics for Distributed Cloud 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:
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