Viewing trigger monitoring charts in Cloud Functions
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Updated at May 14, 2026
You can monitor triggers using the monitoring tools in the management console. These tools display diagnostic information as charts. Monitoring collects metric values and displays charts.
The chart refresh interval is 15 seconds.
Viewing monitoring charts
Management console
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In the management console
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Go to Cloud Functions.
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Select the trigger whose monitoring charts you want to view.
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Navigate to the Monitoring tab.
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You will see the following charts:
- Request latency: Average time it takes a trigger to process a request.
- Read events: Number of events that have set off the trigger.
- Function access errors: Number of access errors when invoking the function.
- Function call errors: Number of errors when invoking the function.
- DLQ access errors: Number of errors when accessing the dead-letter queue.
- Send to DLQ errors: Number of errors when sending messages to the dead-letter queue.
You can select a time period for which you want to display information: hour, day, week, month, or a custom interval.
Custom metrics
To get started with metrics, dashboards, and alerts in Monitoring, click Open in Monium in the top-right corner.
For metric descriptions, see this reference.