Stackdriver Monitoring API: Manages your Stackdriver Monitoring data and configurations. Most projects must be associated with a Stackdriver account, with a few exceptions as noted on the individual method pages.

• Client Library Documentation
• Product Documentation

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
2. Enable billing for your project.
3. Enable the Stackdriver Monitoring API.
4. Setup Authentication.

Install this library in a virtualenv using pip. virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With virtualenv, it's possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.

Python >= 3.5

Python == 2.7. Python 2.7 support will be removed on January 1, 2020.

pip install virtualenv virtualenv <your-env> source <your-env>/bin/activate <your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-monitoring

pip install virtualenv virtualenv <your-env> <your-env>\Scripts\activate <your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-monitoring

from google.cloud import monitoring_v3 client = monitoring_v3.MetricServiceClient() name = client.project_path('[PROJECT]') # Iterate over all results for element in client.list_monitored_resource_descriptors(name): # process element pass # Or iterate over results one page at a time for page in client.list_monitored_resource_descriptors(name).pages: for element in page: # process element pass

• Read the Client Library Documentation for Stackdriver Monitoring API to see other available methods on the client.
• Read the Product documentation to learn more about the product and see How-to Guides.