I completely agree and the engineering team is working hard on providing better Stackdriver metrics to report container level resource usage (currently no ETA for the release). For clarity, currently it is the ' bytes_used <https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_agent#agent-memory>' metric that is being recorded.
As for the pricing, depending on the resource settings you specify in your app.yaml configuration file, App Engine will pick a Compute Engine machine type <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/nodejs/configuring-your-app-with-app-yaml#resource-settings>that most closely matches your settings. You are then charged per hour for those resources <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing#flexible-environment-instances>(even if you are not using them and they are idle, for example like a car rental), just like the Standard Environment <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing#standard_instance_pricing> and normal Compute Engine pricing <https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#predefined_machine_types>. - Therefore it is recommended to keep your instance count to a minimal to save costs by stopping previous versions, limiting max instances in your scaling settings, using minimal resource settings, and optimizing your code to respond quickly to concurrent requests as to fit as much traffic as possible onto a single instance. - Note that Google Groups is for generic product discussions and not for reporting Google-end issues and feature requests. To receive updates on the work being done for container level resource monitoring it is recommended to open a feature request in the Public Issue Tracker. <https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7a4bea7f-ed92-4a11-8964-5b149373ba82%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
