The Agent for Compute Workloads lets you monitor and evaluate workloads
running on Compute Engine.

Once you install the agent on the compute instances that host your workload, the
agent collects metrics from your workload and instances, and sends
them to Workload Manager. After this, you use the evaluation service of
Workload Manager to evaluate your workload against industry best
practices and those recommended by Google Cloud. For more information, see
[About Workload Manager evaluation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/about-evaluations.md.txt).

## Supported workloads

You can use the Agent for Compute Workloads for evaluating the following
workloads running on Compute Engine:

- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- Redis
- Red Hat OpenShift, through the [Cluster Services for OpenShift Telemetry operator](https://docs.cloud.google.com/openshift-cluster/automate-cluster-config-validation.md.txt#about-cso-telemetry-operator) ([Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages))

You can configure the agent to collect metrics from multiple workloads running
on the same Compute Engine instance. You do this by specifying each
workload in the agent's configuration file.

## Supported OS versions

You can install and run the Agent for Compute Workloads on Linux and Windows
supported by Compute Engine. For information about OS versions supported
by Compute Engine, see
[Operating system details](https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/os-details.md.txt).

## Pricing

While you don't incur any charges for installing and running the
Agent for Compute Workloads, you might be charged for the metrics or logs
that the agent sends to your Google Cloud project.

For information about the cost you incur for sending logs to your
Google Cloud project, see
[Cloud Logging pricing](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#logging-costs).

## Agent codebase

To help you satisfy security requirements, you can view the source code of the
Agent for Compute Workloads in the following read-only GitHub repository:
[GoogleCloudPlatform/workloadagent](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/workloadagent).

## What's next

- Learn [about Workload Manager evaluation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/about-evaluations.md.txt)
- Learn how to [enable Workload Manager](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/enable.md.txt)
- Learn how to [set up the agent for Microsoft SQL Server workloads](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/set-up-agent-for-sql-server.md.txt)
- Learn how to [set up the agent for MySQL workloads](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/set-up-agent-for-mysql.md.txt)
- Learn how to [set up the agent for Redis workloads](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/set-up-agent-for-redis.md.txt)
- Learn how to [set up the Cluster Services for OpenShift Telemetry operator](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/set-up-operator-for-openshift.md.txt) ([Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages))