list_metric_descriptors
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Use this as the primary tool to discover the types of metrics available in a Google Cloud project. This is a good first step to understanding what data is available for monitoring and building dashboards or alerts.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| activeOnly | boolean | no | Optional. If true, only metrics and monitored resource types that have recent data (within roughly 25 hours) will be included in the response. - If a metric descriptor enumerates monitored resource types, only the monitored resource types for which the metric type has recent data will be included in the returned metric descriptor, and if none of them have recent data, the metric descriptor will not be returned. - If a metric descriptor does not enumerate the compatible monitored resource types, it will be returned only if the metric type has recent data for some monitored resource type. The returned descriptor will not enumerate any monitored resource types. |
| filter | string | no | Optional. If this field is empty, all custom and system-defined metric descriptors are returned. Otherwise, the [filter](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3/filters) specifies which metric descriptors are to be returned. For example, the following filter matches all [custom metrics](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/custom-metrics): metric.type = starts_with("custom.googleapis.com/") |
| name | string | yes | Required. The [project](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3#project_name) on which to execute the request. The format is: projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER] |
| pageSize | integer | no | Optional. A positive number that is the maximum number of results to return. The default and maximum value is 10,000. If a page_size <= 0 or > 10,000 is submitted, will instead return a maximum of 10,000 results. |
| pageToken | string | no | Optional. If this field is not empty then it must contain the `nextPageToken` value returned by a previous call to this method. Using this field causes the method to return additional results from the previous method call. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"description": "The `ListMetricDescriptors` request.",
"properties": {
"activeOnly": {
"description": "Optional. If true, only metrics and monitored resource types that have recent data (within roughly 25 hours) will be included in the response. - If a metric descriptor enumerates monitored resource types, only the monitored resource types for which the metric type has recent data will be included in the returned metric descriptor, and if none of them have recent data, the metric descriptor will not be returned. - If a metric descriptor does not enumerate the compatible monitored resource types, it will be returned only if the metric type has recent data for some monitored resource type. The returned descriptor will not enumerate any monitored resource types.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"filter": {
"description": "Optional. If this field is empty, all custom and system-defined metric descriptors are returned. Otherwise, the [filter](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3/filters) specifies which metric descriptors are to be returned. For example, the following filter matches all [custom metrics](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/custom-metrics): metric.type = starts_with(\"custom.googleapis.com/\")",
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"description": "Required. The [project](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3#project_name) on which to execute the request. The format is: projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]",
"type": "string"
},
"pageSize": {
"description": "Optional. A positive number that is the maximum number of results to return. The default and maximum value is 10,000. If a page_size <= 0 or > 10,000 is submitted, will instead return a maximum of 10,000 results.",
"format": "int32",
"type": "integer"
},
"pageToken": {
"description": "Optional. If this field is not empty then it must contain the `nextPageToken` value returned by a previous call to this method. Using this field causes the method to return additional results from the previous method call.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"name"
],
"type": "object"
}