Setup for Full Access

This page describes the basic steps necessary to set up your local environment to experiment with Timeseries Insights API using the curl command.

This is a guide to set up a project with the Timeseries Insights DataSet Owner role (roles/timeseriesinsights.datasetsOwner), which allows you to create and delete datasets.

Before you begin

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

3. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

4. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Google Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

   • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

5. Enable the Timeseries Insights API:

   gcloud services enable timeseriesinsights.googleapis.com

6. Set up authentication:

   1. Create the service account:

      gcloud iam service-accounts create SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME

      Replace SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME with a name for the service account.

   2. Grant the roles/timeseriesinsights.datasetsOwner IAM role to the service account:

      gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="serviceAccount:SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" --role=roles/timeseriesinsights.datasetsOwner

      Replace the following:

      • SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME: the name of the service account
      • PROJECT_ID: the project ID where you created the service account
      Note: The --role flag affects which resources your service account can access in your project. You can revoke these roles or grant additional roles later. In production environments, do not grant the Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles. Instead, grant a predefined role or custom role that meets your needs.

   3. Grant your Google Account a role that lets you create access tokens for the service account:

      gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com --member="user:USER_EMAIL" --role=roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator

      Replace the following:

      • SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME: the name of the service account
      • PROJECT_ID: the project ID where you created the service account
      • USER_EMAIL: the email address for your Google Account
7. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

8. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

9. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Google Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

   • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

10. Enable the Timeseries Insights API:

    gcloud services enable timeseriesinsights.googleapis.com

11. Set up authentication:

    1. Create the service account:

       gcloud iam service-accounts create SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME

       Replace SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME with a name for the service account.

    2. Grant the roles/timeseriesinsights.datasetsOwner IAM role to the service account:

       gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="serviceAccount:SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" --role=roles/timeseriesinsights.datasetsOwner

       Replace the following:

       • SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME: the name of the service account
       • PROJECT_ID: the project ID where you created the service account
       Note: The --role flag affects which resources your service account can access in your project. You can revoke these roles or grant additional roles later. In production environments, do not grant the Owner, Editor, or Viewer roles. Instead, grant a predefined role or custom role that meets your needs.

    3. Grant your Google Account a role that lets you create access tokens for the service account:

       gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com --member="user:USER_EMAIL" --role=roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator

       Replace the following:

       • SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME: the name of the service account
       • PROJECT_ID: the project ID where you created the service account
       • USER_EMAIL: the email address for your Google Account

Test with curl

1. Define a convenient shell alias for calling Google REST APIs:

   alias gcurl='curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token --impersonate-service-account=SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL)" -H "Content-Type: application/json"'
   

2. Set an environment variable PROJECT_ID with the identifier of your project:

   PROJECT_ID="my-project-id"
   

3. List the enabled APIs and services in this project:

   gcurl "https://timeseriesinsights.googleapis.com/v1/projects/${PROJECT_ID}/datasets"
   

   If you do not see an error, then your setup is successful.

Next steps

Follow Tutorial to learn about the API.