Monitoring client libraries

This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the Cloud Monitoring API. Client libraries make it easier to access Google Cloud APIs from a supported language. Although you can use Google Cloud APIs directly by making raw requests to the server, client libraries provide simplifications that significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write.

Read more about the Cloud Client Libraries and the older Google API Client Libraries in Client libraries explained.

The samples on this page use custom, or user-defined, metrics to illustrate the use of the client libraries. The system-defined metrics described in the Metrics list are collected for you. You don't need to write any code to collect them, although the agent metrics do require the installation of the Cloud Monitoring agent. For more information on agent metrics, see the Agent metrics list.

For information about the previous Monitoring API client libraries, see Monitoring API Client Libraries.

Install the client library

C++

See Setting up a C++ development environment for details about this client library's requirements and install dependencies.

C#

In Visual Studio 2013/2015, open the Package Manager Console and run this command:

Install-Package Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3 -Pre

For more information, see Setting Up a C# Development Environment.

Go

go get cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3

For more information, see Setting Up a Go Development Environment.

Java

If you are using Maven with a BOM, add the following to your pom.xml file:

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>26.32.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-monitoring</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

If you are using Maven without a BOM, add this to your dependencies:

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>26.50.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-monitoring</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

If you are using Gradle, add the following to your dependencies:

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring:3.54.0'

If you are using sbt, add the following to your dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-monitoring" % "3.54.0"

If you're using Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or Eclipse, you can add client libraries to your project using the following IDE plugins:

• Cloud Code for VS Code
• Cloud Code for IntelliJ
• Cloud Tools for Eclipse

The plugins provide additional functionality, such as key management for service accounts. Refer to each plugin's documentation for details.

Note: Cloud Java client libraries do not currently support Android.

For more information, see Setting Up a Java Development Environment.

Node.js

npm install --save @google-cloud/monitoring

For more information, see Setting Up a Node.js Development Environment.

PHP

composer require google/cloud-monitoring

Note: The Monitoring API Client Library requires you install and enable the gRPC Extension for PHP.

For more information, see Using PHP on Google Cloud.

Python

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-monitoring

For more information, see Setting Up a Python Development Environment.

Ruby

gem install google-cloud-monitoring

For more information, see Setting Up a Ruby Development Environment.

Set up authentication

To authenticate calls to Google Cloud APIs, client libraries support Application Default Credentials (ADC); the libraries look for credentials in a set of defined locations and use those credentials to authenticate requests to the API. With ADC, you can make credentials available to your application in a variety of environments, such as local development or production, without needing to modify your application code.

For production environments, the way you set up ADC depends on the service and context. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials.

For a local development environment, you can set up ADC with the credentials that are associated with your Google Account:

1. Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

   gcloud init

2. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

   gcloud auth application-default login

   You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

   A sign-in screen appears. After you sign in, your credentials are stored in the local credential file used by ADC.

Use the client library

The following example shows how to use the client library.

C++

#include "google/cloud/monitoring/v3/alert_policy_client.h"
#include "google/cloud/project.h"
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) try {
  if (argc != 2) {
    std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " project-id\n";
    return 1;
  }

  namespace monitoring = ::google::cloud::monitoring_v3;
  auto client = monitoring::AlertPolicyServiceClient(
      monitoring::MakeAlertPolicyServiceConnection());

  auto const project = google::cloud::Project(argv[1]);
  for (auto a : client.ListAlertPolicies(project.FullName())) {
    if (!a) throw std::move(a).status();
    std::cout << a->DebugString() << "\n";
  }

  return 0;
} catch (google::cloud::Status const& status) {
  std::cerr << "google::cloud::Status thrown: " << status << "\n";
  return 1;
}

C#

README.md for instructions on using Visual Studio to build and run this sample C# code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3;
using Google.Protobuf.WellKnownTypes;
using Google.Api;
using Google.Api.Gax.ResourceNames;

namespace GoogleCloudSamples
{
    public class QuickStart
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Your Google Cloud Platform project ID.
            string projectId = "YOUR-PROJECT-ID";

            // Create client.
            MetricServiceClient metricServiceClient = MetricServiceClient.Create();

            // Initialize request argument(s).
            ProjectName name = new ProjectName(projectId);

            // Prepare a data point.
            TypedValue salesTotal = new TypedValue
            {
                DoubleValue = 123.45
            };
            Point dataPoint = new Point
            {
                Value = salesTotal
            };
            // Sets data point's interval end time to current time.
            DateTime UnixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
            Timestamp timeStamp = new Timestamp
            {
                Seconds = (long)(DateTime.UtcNow - UnixEpoch).TotalSeconds
            };
            TimeInterval interval = new TimeInterval
            {
                EndTime = timeStamp
            };
            dataPoint.Interval = interval;

            // Prepare custom metric.
            Metric metric = new Metric
            {
                Type = "custom.googleapis.com/my_metric"
            };
            metric.Labels.Add("store_id", "Pittsburgh");

            // Prepare monitored resource.
            MonitoredResource resource = new MonitoredResource
            {
                Type = "gce_instance"
            };
            
            resource.Labels.Add("project_id", projectId);
            resource.Labels.Add("instance_id", "1234567890123456789");
            resource.Labels.Add("zone", "us-central1-f");

            // Create a new time series using inputs.
            TimeSeries timeSeriesData = new TimeSeries
            {
                Metric = metric,
                Resource = resource
            };
            timeSeriesData.Points.Add(dataPoint);

            // Add newly created time series to list of time series to be written.
            IEnumerable<TimeSeries> timeSeries = new List<TimeSeries> { timeSeriesData };
            // Write time series data.
            metricServiceClient.CreateTimeSeries(name, timeSeries);
            Console.WriteLine("Done writing time series data.");
        }
    }
}

Go

// Sample monitoring-quickstart writes a data point to Stackdriver Monitoring.
package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"time"

	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3/v2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3/v2/monitoringpb"
	googlepb "github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp"
	metricpb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api/metric"
	monitoredrespb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api/monitoredres"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Creates a client.
	client, err := monitoring.NewMetricClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create client: %v", err)
	}

	// Sets your Google Cloud Platform project ID.
	projectID := "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

	// Prepares an individual data point
	dataPoint := &monitoringpb.Point{
		Interval: &monitoringpb.TimeInterval{
			EndTime: &googlepb.Timestamp{
				Seconds: time.Now().Unix(),
			},
		},
		Value: &monitoringpb.TypedValue{
			Value: &monitoringpb.TypedValue_DoubleValue{
				DoubleValue: 123.45,
			},
		},
	}

	// Writes time series data.
	if err := client.CreateTimeSeries(ctx, &monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest{
		Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s", projectID),
		TimeSeries: []*monitoringpb.TimeSeries{
			{
				Metric: &metricpb.Metric{
					Type: "custom.googleapis.com/stores/daily_sales",
					Labels: map[string]string{
						"store_id": "Pittsburg",
					},
				},
				Resource: &monitoredrespb.MonitoredResource{
					Type: "global",
					Labels: map[string]string{
						"project_id": projectID,
					},
				},
				Points: []*monitoringpb.Point{
					dataPoint,
				},
			},
		},
	}); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to write time series data: %v", err)
	}

	// Closes the client and flushes the data to Stackdriver.
	if err := client.Close(); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to close client: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Done writing time series data.\n")
}

Java

import com.google.api.Metric;
import com.google.api.MonitoredResource;
import com.google.cloud.monitoring.v3.MetricServiceClient;
import com.google.monitoring.v3.CreateTimeSeriesRequest;
import com.google.monitoring.v3.Point;
import com.google.monitoring.v3.ProjectName;
import com.google.monitoring.v3.TimeInterval;
import com.google.monitoring.v3.TimeSeries;
import com.google.monitoring.v3.TypedValue;
import com.google.protobuf.util.Timestamps;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class QuickstartSample {

  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    quickstart(projectId);
  }

  public static void quickstart(String projectId) throws IOException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    try (MetricServiceClient metricServiceClient = MetricServiceClient.create()) {

      // Prepares an individual data point
      TimeInterval interval =
          TimeInterval.newBuilder()
              .setEndTime(Timestamps.fromMillis(System.currentTimeMillis()))
              .build();
      TypedValue value = TypedValue.newBuilder().setDoubleValue(123.45).build();
      Point point = Point.newBuilder().setInterval(interval).setValue(value).build();

      List<Point> pointList = new ArrayList<>();
      pointList.add(point);

      ProjectName name = ProjectName.of(projectId);

      // Prepares the metric descriptor
      Map<String, String> metricLabels = new HashMap<>();
      metricLabels.put("store_id", "Pittsburg");
      Metric metric =
          Metric.newBuilder()
              .setType("custom.googleapis.com/stores/daily_sales")
              .putAllLabels(metricLabels)
              .build();

      // Prepares the monitored resource descriptor
      Map<String, String> resourceLabels = new HashMap<>();
      resourceLabels.put("project_id", projectId);
      MonitoredResource resource =
          MonitoredResource.newBuilder().setType("global").putAllLabels(resourceLabels).build();

      // Prepares the time series request
      TimeSeries timeSeries =
          TimeSeries.newBuilder()
              .setMetric(metric)
              .setResource(resource)
              .addAllPoints(pointList)
              .build();
      List<TimeSeries> timeSeriesList = new ArrayList<>();
      timeSeriesList.add(timeSeries);

      CreateTimeSeriesRequest request =
          CreateTimeSeriesRequest.newBuilder()
              .setName(name.toString())
              .addAllTimeSeries(timeSeriesList)
              .build();

      // Writes time series data
      metricServiceClient.createTimeSeries(request);

      System.out.printf("Done writing time series data.%n");
    }
  }
}

Node.js

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const monitoring = require('@google-cloud/monitoring');

async function quickstart() {
  // Creates a client
  const client = new monitoring.MetricServiceClient();

  // TODO(developer): Uncomment and set the following variables
  // const projectId = "PROJECT_ID"

  // Prepares an individual data point
  const dataPoint = {
    interval: {
      endTime: {
        seconds: Date.now() / 1000,
      },
    },
    value: {
      // The amount of sales
      doubleValue: 123.45,
    },
  };

  // Prepares the time series request
  const request = {
    name: client.projectPath(projectId),
    timeSeries: [
      {
        // Ties the data point to a custom metric
        metric: {
          type: 'custom.googleapis.com/stores/daily_sales',
          labels: {
            store_id: 'Pittsburgh',
          },
        },
        resource: {
          type: 'global',
          labels: {
            project_id: projectId,
          },
        },
        points: [dataPoint],
      },
    ],
  };

  // Writes time series data
  const [result] = await client.createTimeSeries(request);
  console.log('Done writing time series data.', result);
}
quickstart();

PHP

# Includes the autoloader for libraries installed with composer
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

# Imports the Google Cloud client library
use Google\Api\Metric;
use Google\Api\MonitoredResource;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\Client\MetricServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\CreateTimeSeriesRequest;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\Point;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\TimeInterval;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\TimeSeries;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\TypedValue;
use Google\Protobuf\Timestamp;

// These variables are set by the App Engine environment. To test locally,
// ensure these are set or manually change their values.
$projectId = getenv('GCLOUD_PROJECT') ?: 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';
$instanceId = '1234567890123456789';
$zone = 'us-central1-f';

try {
    $client = new MetricServiceClient();
    $formattedProjectName = 'projects/' . $projectId;
    $labels = [
        'instance_id' => $instanceId,
        'zone' => $zone,
    ];

    $m = new Metric();
    $m->setType('custom.googleapis.com/my_metric');

    $r = new MonitoredResource();
    $r->setType('gce_instance');
    $r->setLabels($labels);

    $value = new TypedValue();
    $value->setDoubleValue(3.14);

    $timestamp = new Timestamp();
    $timestamp->setSeconds(time());

    $interval = new TimeInterval();
    $interval->setStartTime($timestamp);
    $interval->setEndTime($timestamp);

    $point = new Point();
    $point->setValue($value);
    $point->setInterval($interval);
    $points = [$point];

    $timeSeries = new TimeSeries();
    $timeSeries->setMetric($m);
    $timeSeries->setResource($r);
    $timeSeries->setPoints($points);
    $createTimeSeriesRequest = (new CreateTimeSeriesRequest())
        ->setName($formattedProjectName)
        ->setTimeSeries([$timeSeries]);

    $client->createTimeSeries($createTimeSeriesRequest);
    print('Successfully submitted a time series' . PHP_EOL);
} finally {
    $client->close();
}

Python

from google.cloud import monitoring_v3

import time

client = monitoring_v3.MetricServiceClient()
# project_id = 'my-project'  # TODO: Update to your project ID.
project_name = f"projects/{project_id}"

series = monitoring_v3.TimeSeries()
series.metric.type = "custom.googleapis.com/my_metric"
series.metric.labels["store_id"] = "Pittsburgh"
series.resource.type = "gce_instance"
series.resource.labels["instance_id"] = "1234567890123456789"
series.resource.labels["zone"] = "us-central1-f"
now = time.time()
seconds = int(now)
nanos = int((now - seconds) * 10**9)
interval = monitoring_v3.TimeInterval(
    {"end_time": {"seconds": seconds, "nanos": nanos}}
)
point = monitoring_v3.Point({"interval": interval, "value": {"double_value": 3.14}})
series.points = [point]
client.create_time_series(request={"name": project_name, "time_series": [series]})
print("Successfully wrote time series.")
return True

Ruby

# Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
# project_id = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

# Example metric label
# metric_label = "my-value"

# Instantiates a client
metric_service_client = Google::Cloud::Monitoring.metric_service
project_path = metric_service_client.project_path project: project_id

series = Google::Cloud::Monitoring::V3::TimeSeries.new
series.metric = Google::Api::Metric.new type:   "custom.googleapis.com/my_metric",
                                        labels: { "my_key" => metric_label }

resource = Google::Api::MonitoredResource.new type: "gce_instance"
resource.labels["project_id"] = project_id
resource.labels["instance_id"] = "1234567890123456789"
resource.labels["zone"] = "us-central1-f"
series.resource = resource

point = Google::Cloud::Monitoring::V3::Point.new
point.value = Google::Cloud::Monitoring::V3::TypedValue.new double_value: 3.14
now = Time.now
end_time = Google::Protobuf::Timestamp.new seconds: now.to_i, nanos: now.nsec
point.interval = Google::Cloud::Monitoring::V3::TimeInterval.new end_time: end_time
series.points << point

metric_service_client.create_time_series name: project_path, time_series: [series]

puts "Successfully wrote time series."

Additional resources

C++

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for C++:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code

C#

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for C#:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Go

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Go:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Java

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Java:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Node.js

• API Reference Documentation
• Source Code
• GitHub Issue Tracker
• Stack Overflow

PHP

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for PHP:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Python

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Python:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Ruby

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Ruby:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-monitoring on Stack Overflow
• Source code