Disable the Cloud Monitoring API

This document describes how to disable the Cloud Monitoring API for a Google Cloud project. You might want to disable the Cloud Monitoring API, for example, when you want to prevent ingestion of chargeable metrics into a Google Cloud project. For information about the metrics a Google Cloud project can view and monitor, see Viewing metrics for multiple projects overview.

Caution: We don't recommend that you disable the Cloud Monitoring API. When you disable the Cloud Monitoring API for a Cloud project, then all Cloud Monitoring API calls to the project are rejected. You also lose the ability to monitor the resources and services in that Cloud project.

To disable the Cloud Monitoring API, do the following:

console

1. In the console, select the Cloud project or the AWS connector project, and then go to the APIs & Services page:

   Go to APIs & Services

2. Select Cloud Monitoring API.

3. Click Disable API.

gcloud CLI

Run the following command to disable the Cloud Monitoring API in your current project:

gcloud services disable monitoring.googleapis.com

For information about disabling an API by using Google Cloud CLI, see Enabling and Disabling Services.