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Uptime checks verify that your web server is always accessible. The alerting policy controls who is notified if the uptime checks should fail. You don't need to install the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent to get downtime alerts. The agent provides additional information, but it's not required. The Stackdriver Logging Agent is for additional logging, not for alerts. Using the Monitoring agent is optional. Stackdriver Monitoring can access some metrics without the Monitoring agent, including CPU utilization, some disk traffic metrics, network traffic, and uptime information. [https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/#purpose] Reference: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/quickstart-lamp#gs-checks