Stackdriver Monitoring Custom Metric

[ocervell]

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Description

Need a resource to create custom metrics through Stackdriver Monitoring API.
API Documentation for custom metrics is available here.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• google_monitoring_metric_descriptor

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "google_monitoring_metric_descriptor" {
  project_id="project_test_123"
  description="Daily sales records from all branch stores."
  display_name="daily sales"
  type="custom.googleapis.com/stores/daily_sales"
  metric_kind="GAUGE"
  value_type="DOUBLE"
  unit="{USD}"
  labels=[
    {
      key="store_id",
      value_type="STRING",
      description="The ID of the store."
    }
  ]
}

• #0000

[rileykarson]

Hey @ocervell! We weren't able to get this working up to our standards with Terraform due to issues with the underlying API, so we're not currently interested in adding this resource. That said, we'll leave this open to track interest in the feature.

[ocervell]

@rileykarson Could you expand a little on what issues in particular the underlying API has ? Is it the lack of an update method ?

[chrisst]

@ocervell IIRC there were a few issues with the underlying API that our code generator didn't handle well yet, such as lack of Operation objects for an async request and non standard HTTP codes. Additionally I got guidance from the API team that API descriptors should be automatically created for most scenarios and that custom metric descriptors should be exceptional. So at the time I chose to focus on getting alert policy and the other monitoring resources out over this one.

[agadelshin]

One year later I'd like to raise discussion again:

1. does stackdriver API still have this problems?
2. if it does, how can we motivate stackdriver team to fix it?

[tishen25]

Started working on this

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