Google Cloud will start charging $1.50 / alert

Title: Manage alerting costs

Nowhere in this document does it say $1.50/alert. $1.50 an alert-condition/month.

Pricing: $1.50/mo + $.35/1M alerts https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#pricing-alertin...

people casually say "set up an alert on xyz domain" . "alert" has both connotations.

Pricing is hard and these resources do cost money. Some cloud resources have sensible costs like vcpu, storage, data transfer. Other resource pricing like this one are a bit more clumsy.

The question is, how do you think GCP should charge for alerting? A flat fee? Batches e.g. 0-10 free, 10-100 $1/alert ?

$1.50 / alert doesn't scale very well for any size institution.

For comparison, AWS CloudWatch is $0.10 per alarm metric.

that's a good example and a much more reasonable price. even a graduated scale would be nice.

GCP Pricing 4-5 alerts > 1 mo spot instance cost

It's $1.50 per configured alert condition per month.

it's still expensive > 1000 alert conditions is common.

Agree with others, editorialized misleading title. Should be fixed.