diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index 4630859a482..c7175ffb3d7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 - Normalize AWS RDS CPU Utilization values before making the metadata API call. {pull}39664[39664]
 - Fix behavior of pagetypeinfo metrics {pull}39985[39985]
 - Fix query logic for temp and non-temp tablespaces in Oracle module. {issue}38051[38051] {pull}39787[39787]
+- Set GCP metrics config period to the default (60s) when the value is below the minimum allowed period. {issue}30434[30434] {pull}40020[40020]
+
 
 *Osquerybeat*
 
diff --git a/x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metricset.go b/x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metricset.go
index 49cdce5d73a..0ac5f6d76a8 100644
--- a/x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metricset.go
+++ b/x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metricset.go
@@ -144,7 +144,10 @@ func New(base mb.BaseMetricSet) (mb.MetricSet, error) {
 	}
 
 	if err := validatePeriodForGCP(m.Module().Config().Period); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		m.Logger().Warnf("Period has been set to default value of 60s: %s", err)
+		m.config.period = &durationpb.Duration{
+			Seconds: int64(gcp.MonitoringMetricsSamplingRate),
+		}
 	}
 
 	// Get ingest delay and sample period for each metric type