Creates a new metric descriptor. The creation is executed asynchronously. User-created metric descriptors define custom metrics. The metric descriptor is updated if it already exists, except that metric labels are never removed.
HTTP request
POST https://monitoring.googleapis.com/v3/{name}/metricDescriptors
Path parameters
Parameters | |
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name |
Required. The project on which to execute the request. The format is: 4 projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER] |
Request body
The request body contains an instance of MetricDescriptor
.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of MetricDescriptor
.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write
For more information, see the Authentication Overview.