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The Ops Agent is the primary agent for collecting telemetry from your Compute Engine instances. Combining the collection of logs, metrics, and traces into a single process, the Ops Agent uses Fluent Bit for logs, which supports high-throughput logging, and the OpenTelemetry Collector for metrics and traces.

For information about installing the Ops Agent, see the following:

Ops Agent features

Overall features include:

Logging features

Logging features include:

Monitoring features

Monitoring features include:

Note: Some metrics are only available on VMs running on Linux. See detailed metrics definition and whether they are Linux only in the agent metrics page.

The Cloud Monitoring Metrics Management page provides information that can help you control the amount you spend on billable metrics without affecting observability. The Metrics Management page reports the following information:

You can also use the Metrics Management page to exclude unneeded metrics, eliminating the cost of ingesting them. For more information about the Metrics Management page, see View and manage metric usage.

Trace features

Trace features include:

Virtual machine instances

You can install the Ops Agent on Compute Engine instances. To create a Compute Engine instance, see the Compute Engine getting started guide.

Note: The Ops Agent is not supported on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or on-premises machines.

The following types of VM instances belong to managed services that implement service-specific Monitoring support. Don't try to manually install or configure the Ops Agent on them:

Operating systems

The Ops Agent supports the following operating systems on compatible VM instances. For information about Arm VM instances, see Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs.

Linux operating systems

The agent supports the following Linux operating systems:

Note: To use Cloud Logging on VMs with Container-Optimized OS, follow Using Cloud Logging with Container-Optimized OS instead.
Support for Compute Engine Arm VMs

The Ops Agent supports Compute Engine C4A and Tau T2A Arm VM instances. The Ops Agent is supported for Arm VMs on the following OS images:

The Ops Agent is supported on a subset of the images supported by Compute Engine. For more information about Compute Engine Arm VMs, see Creating and starting an Arm VM instance.

Windows operating systems

Note: n1-standard-1 virtual machines are too small to run Windows and the Ops Agent, so you must use a larger VM.

The agent supports the following Windows operating systems:

Agent access requirements

Installing the agent requires access to the following DNS names:

Running the agent requires access to the following DNS names:

The agent uses TCP ports within the VM for inter-process communication. The following ports, which don't need to be open externally, must be available to the agent on your VM:

Support policy

The Ops Agent is supported according to the support time horizons policy.

Pricing

If you install the Ops Agent, then you might be charged for the metrics, logs, or traces that the agent sends to your Google Cloud project. For pricing information, see Google Cloud Observability pricing.

To collect OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) traces, you must configure the agent to collect traces from an instrumented application; for more information, see Collect (OTLP) traces with the Ops Agent.

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Last updated 2026-08-12 UTC.

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