title: Is Google Managed Prometheus billing per million or per billion?
body: <p>The Google Managed Prometheus says that they cost $0.2 per million samples. However, in <a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#sample-metering-examples" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pricing examples</a> they say:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Scenario 1: You have 100 containers, each writing 1,000 scalar times
  series.</p>
  <p>Variant A: If each time series is written every 15 seconds (1 sample/15s), then the number of samples written per month is 17,420,000,000 (175,200 samples/month * 1,000 time series * 100 containers), or 17.42 <strong>million</strong>.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>But 17,420,000,000 is 17.42 <strong>billion</strong>. So in that example, the price should be $3600, not $3.60, which is a pretty big difference to a pocket.</p>