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[2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/monitoring/2.12.0/monitoring_v3_1_1MetricServiceClient-service-account-snippet)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/monitoring/2.11.0/monitoring_v3_1_1MetricServiceClient-service-account-snippet) \n\nOverride monitoring_v3::MetricServiceClient Authentication Defaults\n===================================================================\n\n [](std::string const& keyfile) {\n auto is = std::ifstream(keyfile);\n is.exceptions(std::ios::badbit); // Minimal error handling in examples\n auto contents = std::string(std::istreambuf_iterator\u003cchar\u003e(is.rdbuf()), {});\n auto options =\n google::cloud::Options{}.set\u003cgoogle::cloud::UnifiedCredentialsOption\u003e(\n google::cloud::MakeServiceAccountCredentials(contents));\n return google::cloud::monitoring_v3::MetricServiceClient(\n google::cloud::monitoring_v3::MakeMetricServiceConnection(options));\n }"]]