AI-generated Key Takeaways

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• Regularly review your Google Maps Platform API usage, quota, and billing information to control costs and ensure efficient usage.

• Google Maps Platform provides Reporting and Monitoring tools for reviewing this key information.

• Reporting offers predefined visual reports on API usage, quota, and billing in the Google Cloud console.

• Monitoring allows for customized monitoring dashboards and alerts based on usage, quota, and billing metrics.

• Utilize these tools to optimize your Google Maps Platform integration and avoid unexpected costs or disruptions.

It's important to review your Google Maps Platform API usage, quota, andbilling information on a regular basis. This information helps youmeasure API usage, stay within predefined consumption limits, and control coststhrough planned budgets. Reviewing this information can also alert you to any unexpectedinteractions that might occur between your applications and theGoogle Maps Platform services.

The Maps Platform provides two tools that can help you reviewusage, quota, and billing information:

• Reporting: A set of predefined visual reports that let you easily see basic API usage, quota, and billing information in the Google Cloud console. You can quickly determine the number of API calls, see how close you are to hitting API usage quotas, and monitor billing usage over time.

• Monitoring: A set of tools, both in the Cloud console and through an API, that let you monitor API usage, quota, and billing information and define alerts when any of these metrics approaches a predefined limit.

  Monitoring lets you create your own customized monitoring dashboards displaying your metrics as different chart types. You can also issue alert notifications, such as emails or SMS text messages, when a metric crosses a predefined threshold.

Reporting

Reportingin the Maps Platform provides a set of predefined visual reportsthat let you easily see basic API usage, quota, and billing information in theCloud console. View reports for yourMaps Platform API usage, quota, and billing numbers by using theCloud console.

APIs & Services reports

The Cloud consoleAPIs & Services reportprovides usage metrics for all APIs enabled for your project, including theMaps Platform APIs and SDKs as well as all other Google APIs andservices.

This image shows theAPIs & Services report.

Quotas

Quotas set limits on the number of requests your project can make to theMaps Platform APIs. Requests can be limited in three ways:

• Per day
• Per minute
• Per user per minute (where available)

Only successful requests and requeststhat cause server errors count against quota. Requests that fail authenticationdo not count against quota.

Quota usage is displayed in graphs on theQuotas reportpage in the Cloud console.

Billing

The Cloud consoleBillingreports provide billing and related cost information for the project you have selected.

The Cloud Billing Reports page lets you view your Google Cloud usage costsfor all projects linked to a Cloud Billing account. To help you view the costtrends that are important to you, you can select a data range, specify a timerange, configure the chart filters, and group by project, service, SKU, orlocation.

Cloud Billing reports can help you answer questions like these:

• How is my current month's Google Cloud spending trending?
• What project cost the most last month?
• What are my forecasted future costs based on historical trends?
• How much am I spending by region?

This image shows theBilling report.

Monitoring

Cloud Monitoringcollects measurements of your service and of the Google Cloud resourcesthat you use. For example, you can monitor API calls or quota usage over aspecified time interval.

Not only can you define custom metrics and charts, but you can also definealerts. Use alerts to send a notification when the performance of a servicedoesn't meet criteria you define. For example, you can send a notification as anemail, text message, to the Cloud console Mobile App, and otheroptions.

Metrics

In Cloud Monitoring:

• Ametric describes something that is measured. Examples of metrics include the number of calls to an API, percent of a usage quota consumed, or a virtual machine's CPU utilization.
• Atime series is a data structure that contains time-stamped measurements of a metric and information about the source and meaning of those measurements.

To explore metric data, build a chart with Metrics Explorer. For example,to view the request count of an API in one minute intervals for the past hour, useMetrics Explorer to construct a chart that displays the most recent data.

Dashboards

Dashboards letyou view and monitor your time-series data as a collection of charts. To createcustom dashboards, you can use the Cloud console or theCloud Monitoring API.

The following image shows a custom dashboard with two charts:a quota chart on the left, and an API count chart on the right.

Alerts

To be notified when the performance of a service doesn't meet criteria youdefine, create an alerting policy. For example, you can create an alertingpolicy that notifies your on-call team when the 90th percentile of the latencyof HTTP 200 responses from your service exceeds 100 ms.

Alerting gives timely awareness to problems in your cloud applications so youcan resolve the problems quickly.

Cloud Monitoring supports many types of alerts such as:

• Metric threshold alerts: Trigger an alert if a metric rises above or falls below a value for a specific duration or a metric increases or decreases by a predefined percentage.
• Budget alerts: Trigger notifications when your costs exceed a percentage of your budget.
• Quota alerts: Trigger notifications when your usage approaches a quota limit.

What's next

• Reporting
• Monitoring