opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring

What it is and what it does

This package exports OpenTelemetry metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring by wrapping the google-cloud-monitoring client library. It integrates with the OpenTelemetry SDK's metric reader pattern, allowing you to define meters and counters that automatically ship to Cloud Monitoring on a periodic schedule.

However, the package is deprecated. Google Cloud now supports native OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) ingestion directly for metrics, traces, and logs via the Telemetry API, making this exporter unnecessary for new projects. The maintainers recommend migrating to standard OTLP exporters instead. If you are starting a new integration, use OTLP; if you maintain existing code using this exporter, plan a migration.

Use it for:

• Exporting custom application metrics from Python services running on Google Cloud to Cloud Monitoring dashboards.
• Integrating OpenTelemetry instrumentation with legacy Google Cloud monitoring infrastructure that predates OTLP support.
• Monitoring batch jobs or background workers that emit metrics via OpenTelemetry SDK.
• Bridging existing OpenTelemetry metric pipelines to Cloud Monitoring when OTLP ingestion is not yet available in your environment.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Exports OpenTelemetry metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring, but is deprecated in favor of native OTLP ingestion via the Telemetry API.

No, unless you are maintaining existing code already using this exporter. For new projects, use native OTLP exporters instead—Google explicitly recommends this migration path. The package is deprecated and actively discouraged by its maintainers.

Install

opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring on PyPI

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring

uv add opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring

poetry add opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring

Installing opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel and active maintenance (last commit 2026-08-12), but the package is explicitly deprecated and Google recommends migrating to standard OTLP exporters instead.

License in practice

Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use without restriction.

Quickstart

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.exporter.cloud_monitoring import CloudMonitoringMetricsExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader

metrics.set_meter_provider(
    MeterProvider(
        metric_readers=[PeriodicExportingMetricReader(CloudMonitoringMetricsExporter())]
    )
)

Requires Python 3.9 or later and valid Google Cloud credentials for authentication to Cloud Monitoring.

Verify before relying

• Whether existing deployments using this exporter will continue to work after Google deprecates the underlying API.
• Performance characteristics and metric throughput limits compared to native OTLP ingestion.

Package facts

Evidence: opentelemetry_exporter_gcp_monitoring-1.14.0a0-py3-none-any.whl

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