Cloud Monitoring supports the metric types that Google Cloud services define. Services write metric data to record performance information. For example, a metric might record the CPU usage for a Compute Engine instance.
Each Google Cloud metric has a type, which has the format
API.googleapis.com/METRIC_PATH.
The field API.googleapis.com specifies a service domain and
it identifies the Google Cloud service or product area that owns and emits
the metric. The field METRIC_PATH provides a hierarchical path that
uniquely identifies the specific metric within the service domain.
The reference pages list metric types by service domain:
- Name begins with A or B
- Name begins with C
- Name begins with D through H
- Name begins with I through O
- Name begins with P through Z
For each domain, the metrics are listed alphabetically.
Find metric types
To find the metric data that is of interest to you, try the following:
Search the API and product table
The following table can help you find the available metric types for a service.
For example, if you enter GKE in the filter bar, then the
table provides links to your GKE metric types.
| API | Product | Metric link |
|---|---|---|
| actions | Google Assistant Smart Home | Link to metrics |
| aiplatform | Agent Platform | Link to metrics |
| alloydb | AlloyDB for PostgreSQL | Link to metrics |
| apigateway | API Gateway | Link to metrics |
| apigee | Apigee | Link to metrics |
| appengine | App Engine | Link to metrics |
| apphub | App Hub | Link to metrics |
| artifactregistry | Artifact Registry | Link to metrics |
| autoscaler | Compute Engine Autoscaler | Link to metrics |
| backupdr | Backup and DR Service | Link to metrics |
| baremetalsolution | Bare Metal Solution | Link to metrics |
| bigquery | BigQuery | Link to metrics |
| bigquerybiengine | BigQuery BI Engine | Link to metrics |
| bigquerydatatransfer | BigQuery Data Transfer Service | Link to metrics |
| bigquerystorage | BigQuery Storage API | Link to metrics |
| bigtable | Bigtable | Link to metrics |
| billingbudgets | Cloud Billing | Link to metrics |
| blockchainnodeengine | Blockchain Node Engine | Link to metrics |
| certificatemanager | Certificate Manager | Link to metrics |
| ces | Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience | Link to metrics |
| chronicle | Google Security Operations | Link to metrics |
| cloudaicompanion | Gemini | Link to metrics |
| cloudbuild | Cloud Build | Link to metrics |
| clouddeploy | Cloud Deploy | Link to metrics |
| cloudfunctions | Cloud Run functions | Link to metrics
For Cloud Run functions that use the Cloud Run API, metric data is generated by Cloud Run. For a list of those metric types, see Cloud Run metrics. |
| cloudkms | Cloud Key Management Service | Link to metrics |
| cloudsql | Cloud SQL | Link to metrics |
| cloudtasks | Cloud Tasks | Link to metrics |
| cloudtrace | Cloud Trace | Link to metrics |
| composer | Managed Service for Apache Airflow | Link to metrics |
| compute | Compute Engine | Link to metrics |
| connectors | Integration Connectors | Link to metrics |
| contactcenterinsights | Customer Experience Insights | Link to metrics |
| container | Google Kubernetes Engine | Link to metrics
This link is for older-style GKE metric types. For a list of newer metric types, see GKE system metrics. |
| databasecenter | Database Center | Link to metrics |
| dataflow | Dataflow | Link to metrics |
| datafusion | Cloud Data Fusion | Link to metrics |
| datamigration | Database Migration | Link to metrics |
| dataplex | Knowledge Catalog | Link to metrics |
| dataproc | Managed Service for Apache Spark | Link to metrics |
| datastore | Datastore | Link to metrics |
| datastream | Datastream | Link to metrics |
| dbinsights | Cloud SQL for MySQL | Link to metrics |
| dialogflow | Dialogflow | Link to metrics |
| discoveryengine | Discovery Engine | Link to metrics |
| displayvideo | Display & Video 360 API | Link to metrics |
| dlp | Cloud Data Loss Prevention | Link to metrics |
| dns | Cloud DNS | Link to metrics |
| earthengine | Earth Engine | Link to metrics |
| edgecache | Media CDN | Link to metrics |
| edgecontainer | Google Distributed Cloud | Link to metrics |
| eventarc | Eventarc | Link to metrics |
| file | Filestore | Link to metrics |
| firebaseappcheck | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebaseauth | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebaseapphosting | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebasedatabase | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebasedataconnect | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebaseextensions | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebasehosting | Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebasestorage | Cloud Storage for Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firebasevertexai | Gemini in Firebase | Link to metrics |
| firestore | Firestore | Link to metrics |
| firewallinsights | Firewall Insights | Link to metrics |
| fleetengine | Google Maps Platform Mobility services | Link to metrics |
| fpnv | Firebase Phone Number Verification | Link to metrics |
| geminidataanalytics | Gemini Data Analytics | Link to metrics |
| generativelanguage | Gemini API | Link to metrics |
| gkebackup | Backup for GKE | Link to metrics |
| healthcare | Cloud Healthcare API | Link to metrics |
| iam | Identity and Access Management | Link to metrics |
| identitytoolkit | Identity Platform | Link to metrics |
| ids | Cloud IDS | Link to metrics |
| integrations | Application Integration | Link to metrics |
| interconnect | Cloud Interconnect | Link to metrics |
| livestream | Live Stream API | Link to metrics |
| loadbalancing | Cloud Load Balancing | Link to metrics |
| logging | Cloud Logging | Link to metrics |
| lustre | Google Cloud Managed Lustre | Link to metrics |
| managedflink | BigQuery Engine for Apache Flink | Link to metrics |
| managedidentities | Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory | Link to metrics |
| managedkafka | Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka | Link to metrics |
| maps | Google Maps Platform | Link to metrics |
| memcache | Memorystore for Memcached | Link to metrics |
| memorystore | Memorystore | Link to metrics |
| metastore | Dataproc Metastore | Link to metrics |
| ml | Agent Platform | Link to metrics |
| modelarmor | Model Armor | Link to metrics |
| monitoring | Cloud Monitoring | Link to metrics |
| netapp | NetApp | Link to metrics |
| networkmanagement | Network Management API | Link to metrics |
| networkconnectivity | Network Connectivity | Link to metrics |
| networking | Network Topology | Link to metrics |
| networksecurity | Google Cloud Armor | Link to metrics |
| networkservices | Secure Web Proxy | Link to metrics |
| oracledatabase | Oracle Database@Google Cloud | Link to metrics |
| osconfig | VM Manager | Link to metrics |
| parallelstore | Parallelstore | Link to metrics |
| privateca | Certificate Authority Service | Link to metrics |
| pubsub | Pub/Sub | Link to metrics |
| pubsublite | Pub/Sub Lite | Link to metrics |
| recaptchaenterprise | reCAPTCHA | Link to metrics |
| recommendationengine | Recommendations | Link to metrics |
| redis | Memorystore for Redis | Link to metrics |
| retail | Retail API | Link to metrics |
| router | Cloud Router | Link to metrics |
| run | Cloud Run | Link to metrics |
| saasservicemgmt | App Lifecycle Manager | Link to metrics |
| serviceruntime | Google Cloud API and APIs managed by Cloud Endpoints | Link to metrics |
| spanner | Spanner | Link to metrics |
| storage | Cloud Storage | Link to metrics |
| storagetransfer | Storage Transfer Service | Link to metrics |
| telcoautomation | Telecom Network Automation | Link to metrics |
| tpu | Cloud TPU | Link to metrics |
| trafficdirector | Cloud Service Mesh | Link to metrics |
| transferappliance | Transfer Appliance | Link to metrics |
| translationhub | Translation Hub | Link to metrics |
| vectorsearch | Vector Search | Link to metrics |
| videostitcher | Video Stitcher API | Link to metrics |
| visionai | Vision AI | Link to metrics |
| vmwareengine | Google Cloud VMware Engine | Link to metrics |
| vpcaccess | Serverless VPC Access | Link to metrics |
| vpn | Cloud VPN | Link to metrics |
| workflows | Workflows | Link to metrics |
Issue an API request to a project
If your search terms don't match any table rows or the matched rows don't contain the data you need, then issue an API command. You can apply a filter to limit the command's response.
For example, to list metrics whose type includes disk, do the following:
Go to the
projects.metricDescriptors.listpage.In the Try this method pane, do the following:
- In the name field, enter
projects/PROJECT_ID, and replacePROJECT_IDwith your project ID. In the filter field, enter the following:
metric.type = has_substring("disk")The hierarchical path that identifies a specific metric within a service domain uses forward slashes (
/) as delimiters. You can include these delimiters in the filter. For example, the following filter matches metrics that include/disk/in their path:metric.type = has_substring("/disk/")There are other operators available. For example, to list all metrics whose type starts with
compute, then set the filter to the following:metric.type = starts_with("compute")
- In the name field, enter
Click Execute and complete the required authorization steps.
The command response is a list of metric descriptors whose
typefield matches the specified filter.
You can also issue curl commands or use client libraries to issue API
commands.
Pricing
For pricing information, see Google Cloud Observability pricing.