# Google Cloud Monitoring Data Source - Native Plugin (formerly named Stackdriver)

Grafana ships with built-in support for Google Cloud Monitoring. You just have to add it as a data source and you will be ready to build dashboards for your Cloud Monitoring metrics.

Read more about it here:

[https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/features/datasources/cloudmonitoring/](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/features/datasources/cloudmonitoring/)