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Expand Up @@ -340,6 +340,14 @@ To apply granular metric filtering for enabled services, click on the service in

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{{% collapse-content title="Limit metric collection by Google Cloud region, and by global resources" level="h4" %}}

Under the **Metric Collection** tab in Datadog's [Google Cloud integration page][11], deselect which region for Datadog to exclude from metrics collection.
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Could it be multiple regions?

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good call can update since there may be multiple regions to deselect.


Additionally, users can specify additional locations not listed and disable any global metrics not associated with a region.

{{% /collapse-content %}}

{{% collapse-content title="Limit metric collection by host or Cloud Run instance" level="h4" %}}
1. Assign a tag (such as `datadog:true`) to the hosts or Cloud Run instances you want to monitor with Datadog.
2. Under the **Metric Collection** tab in Datadog's [Google Cloud integration page][11], enter the tags in the **Limit Metric Collection Filters** textbox. Only hosts that match one of the defined tags are imported into Datadog. You can use wildcards (`?` for single character, `*` for multi-character) to match many hosts, or `!` to exclude certain hosts. This example includes all `c1*` sized instances, but excludes staging hosts:
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