# Google Cloud Monitoring data source - native plugin (formerly named Stackdriver)

Grafana ships with **built in** support for Google Cloud Monitoring. Simply add it as a data source and you are ready to build dashboards for your Cloud Monitoring metrics.

Read more about it here:

[https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/)