The Cloud Monitoring API, client libraries, metric and resource type references, and MCP tools let you programmatically access and manage Cloud Monitoring.

- [### Enable the Cloud Monitoring API
  Enable the Monitoring API to run code that uses it.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/enable-api)
- [### APIs Explorer
  Use the APIs Explorer to make API calls on Cloud Monitoring
  without writing code.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/apis-explorer)
- [### Cloud Monitoring API client libraries
  Get started with Cloud Monitoring in your language of choice.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/reference/libraries)
- [### Cloud Monitoring API v3
  Access all the features of Monitoring, including
  alerting policies, custom dashboards, and metrics scopes.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/v3)
- [### Metrics list
  View the available metric types in Cloud Monitoring,
  Amazon Web Services, and third-party applications.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics)
- [### Monitored resource list
  View the available monitored resource types in Cloud Monitoring.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/resources)
- [### Monitoring Query Language reference
  Review the reference guide for the Monitoring Query Language (MQL).](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/mql/reference)
- [### MCP reference
  View the MCP reference for the Cloud Monitoring API.](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3_mcp/mcp)