The Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service (section "Discontinuation of Services") defines the deprecation policy that applies to Google Cloud Observability. The deprecation policy only applies to the services, features, or products listed therein. For Google Cloud Observability agents, refer to the Google Cloud Observability agents deprecation policy .
After a service, feature, or product is officially deprecated, it continues to be available for at least the period of time defined in the Terms of Service. After this period of time, the service is scheduled for shutdown.
The following table lists features and functionality that are deprecated, along with their related shutdown schedules:
Feature (status)
Deprecated date
Shutdown date
Details
Monitoring Query Language (MQL)
October 22, 2024
July 22, 2025
July 22, 2025
N/A
AWS CloudWatch metrics in Connector projects
August 21, 2023
August 21, 2024
Obsolete resource metadata labels
May 21, 2020
July 31, 2020
Obsolete or redundant resource metadata labels are being removed.
See Obsolete resource metadata labels
for details.
Legacy installation scripts for the Monitoring agent
April 27, 2020
February 17, 2022
The legacy installation scripts are deprecated. See the Legacy installation scripts for Monitoring agent
page for details.
Legacy installation script for the Logging agent
April 27, 2020
February 17, 2022
The legacy installation script is deprecated.
See the Legacy installation script for Logging agent
page for details.
Legacy versions of the Monitoring agent
Legacy Monitoring and Logging support for GKE
December 12, 2019
March 31, 2021
Various integrations for third-party applications in legacy Monitoring agent
February 28, 2019
April 09, 2020
