Method: projects.metricDescriptors.get

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
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Gets a single metric descriptor.

HTTP request

GET https://monitoring.googleapis.com/v3/{name}

Path parameters

Parameters
name	string Required. The metric descriptor on which to execute the request. The format is: projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]/metricDescriptors/[METRIC_ID] An example value of [METRIC_ID] is "compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk/read_bytes_count".

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an 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.read
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.