Get a metric descriptor

Demonstrates how to get the details of a metric descriptor.

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• List metric and resource types

Code sample

C#

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public static object GetMetricDetails(string projectId, string metricType)
{
    MetricServiceClient client = MetricServiceClient.Create();
    MetricDescriptorName name = new MetricDescriptorName(projectId, metricType);
    try
    {
        var response = client.GetMetricDescriptor(name);
        string metric = JObject.Parse($"{response}").ToString();
        Console.WriteLine($"{ metric }");
    }
    catch (Grpc.Core.RpcException ex)
        when (ex.Status.StatusCode == Grpc.Core.StatusCode.NotFound)
    { }
    return 0;
}

Go

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import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3"
	"cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3/v2/monitoringpb"
)

// getMetricDescriptor gets the descriptor for the given metricType and prints
// information about it. metricType is the type of the metric, for example
// compute.googleapis.com/firewall/dropped_packets_count.
func getMetricDescriptor(w io.Writer, projectID, metricType string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()
	c, err := monitoring.NewMetricClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewMetricClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer c.Close()
	req := &monitoringpb.GetMetricDescriptorRequest{
		Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/metricDescriptors/%s", projectID, metricType),
	}
	resp, err := c.GetMetricDescriptor(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not get custom metric: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Name: %v\n", resp.GetName())
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Description: %v\n", resp.GetDescription())
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Type: %v\n", resp.GetType())
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Metric Kind: %v\n", resp.GetMetricKind())
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Value Type: %v\n", resp.GetValueType())
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Unit: %v\n", resp.GetUnit())
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Labels:\n")
	for _, l := range resp.GetLabels() {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "\t%s (%s) - %s", l.GetKey(), l.GetValueType(), l.GetDescription())
	}
	return nil
}

Java

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// Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
final String projectId = System.getProperty("projectId");

MetricDescriptorName descriptorName = MetricDescriptorName.of(projectId, type);

try (final MetricServiceClient client = MetricServiceClient.create();) {
  MetricDescriptor response = client.getMetricDescriptor(descriptorName);

  System.out.println("Printing metrics descriptor: " + response);
}

Node.js

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

// Creates a client
const client = new monitoring.MetricServiceClient();

async function getMetricDescriptor() {
  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment and edit the following lines of code.
   */
  // const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';
  // const metricId = 'custom.googleapis.com/your/id';

  const request = {
    name: client.projectMetricDescriptorPath(projectId, metricId),
  };

  // Retrieves a metric descriptor
  const [descriptor] = await client.getMetricDescriptor(request);
  console.log(`Name: ${descriptor.displayName}`);
  console.log(`Description: ${descriptor.description}`);
  console.log(`Type: ${descriptor.type}`);
  console.log(`Kind: ${descriptor.metricKind}`);
  console.log(`Value Type: ${descriptor.valueType}`);
  console.log(`Unit: ${descriptor.unit}`);
  console.log('Labels:');
  descriptor.labels.forEach(label => {
    console.log(`  ${label.key} (${label.valueType}) - ${label.description}`);
  });
}
getMetricDescriptor();

PHP

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use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\Client\MetricServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\GetMetricDescriptorRequest;

/**
 * Example:
 * ```
 * get_descriptor($projectId);
 * ```
 *
 * @param string $projectId Your project ID
 * @param string $metricId  The ID of the Metric Descriptor to get
 */
function get_descriptor($projectId, $metricId)
{
    $metrics = new MetricServiceClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);

    $metricName = $metrics->metricDescriptorName($projectId, $metricId);
    $getMetricDescriptorRequest = (new GetMetricDescriptorRequest())
        ->setName($metricName);
    $descriptor = $metrics->getMetricDescriptor($getMetricDescriptorRequest);

    printf('Name: ' . $descriptor->getDisplayName() . PHP_EOL);
    printf('Description: ' . $descriptor->getDescription() . PHP_EOL);
    printf('Type: ' . $descriptor->getType() . PHP_EOL);
    printf('Metric Kind: ' . $descriptor->getMetricKind() . PHP_EOL);
    printf('Value Type: ' . $descriptor->getValueType() . PHP_EOL);
    printf('Unit: ' . $descriptor->getUnit() . PHP_EOL);
    printf('Labels:' . PHP_EOL);
    foreach ($descriptor->getLabels() as $labels) {
        printf('  %s (%s) - %s' . PHP_EOL,
            $labels->getKey(),
            $labels->getValueType(),
            $labels->getDescription());
    }
}

Python

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from google.cloud import monitoring_v3

client = monitoring_v3.MetricServiceClient()
descriptor = client.get_metric_descriptor(name=metric_name)
pprint.pprint(descriptor)

Ruby

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gem "google-cloud-monitoring"
require "google/cloud/monitoring"

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

# Example metric type
# metric_type = "custom.googleapis.com/my_metric"

client = Google::Cloud::Monitoring.metric_service
metric_name = client.metric_descriptor_path project:           project_id,
                                            metric_descriptor: metric_type

descriptor = client.get_metric_descriptor name: metric_name
p descriptor

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