Cloud Monitoring: PromQL Alerting Policies Support Longer Data Retention
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Cloud Monitoring's PromQL-based alerting policies now support querying data beyond 25 hours, extending to over two years. This enhancement allows for more comprehensive historical analysis and detection of long-term trends or anomalies. Engineers and architects using Cloud Monitoring for infrastructure and application health will benefit from the expanded data visibility for their alerting strategies.
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Alerting policies based on PromQL queries can now operate over more than 25 hours of data. For more information, see Query over 2 years of metric data and Limits for alerting .
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https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#June_29_2026
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