Looking to export a Log-based Metric in JSON Format

Question

I have several GCP project that are all monitored by one central project. I want to add a Log-based metric to each of the sub-projects. The structure of the metric is identical across all the projects, with the exception that the name of the project is appended to the name of the metric. To do this, I have a Python Script that can use the GCP API to create the Metric. The script, however, requires the JSON description of the Metric. I cannot, however, find out where to export a metric's JSON. Does anyone know how to export, fetch, or GET a metric in JSON form? I have attempted to use the API call outlined here, but it lacks the filter and lableExtractors fields for the metric.

Answer 1

Since it was created as a log-based metric, you can:

• either use the Logging service to retrieve it i.e. Logging projects.metrics.get which returns a LogMetric including the MetricDescriptor
• or Cloud Monitoring projects.metricDescriptors.get which returns the MetricDescriptor.