NAME

gcloud logging metrics create - create a logs-based metric

SYNOPSIS

gcloud logging metrics create METRIC_NAME (--config-from-file=CONFIG_FROM_FILE | [--description=DESCRIPTION --log-filter=LOG_FILTER : --bucket-name=BUCKET_NAME]) [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION

Create a logs-based metric to count the number of log entries that match a filter expression. Logs-based metrics can also be used to extract values from logs and create a distribution of the values.

EXAMPLES

To create a metric that counts the number of log entries with a severity level higher than WARNING, run:

$ gcloud logging metrics create high_severity_count \ --description="Number of high severity log entries" \ --log-filter="severity > WARNING"

Detailed information about filters can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/view/logging-query-language

To create a metric that uses advanced features like distribution or user-defined labels, run:

$ gcloud logging metrics create my_metric \ --config-from-file=$PATH_TO_FILE

The config file can be in YAML or JSON format. Detailed information about how to configure metrics can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/v2/rest/v2/projects.metrics#LogMetric.

To create a bucket log-based metric, run:

$ gcloud logging metrics create my_bucket_metric \ --description="DESCRIPTION" --log-filter="LOG_FILTER" \ --bucket-name="BUCKET_NAME"

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

METRIC_NAME

The name of the new metric.

REQUIRED FLAGS

Data about the new metric.

Exactly one of these must be specified:

--config-from-file=CONFIG_FROM_FILE

A path to a YAML or JSON file specifying the logs-based metric to create.

A group of arguments to specify simple counter logs-based metrics.
--description=DESCRIPTION

The metric's description.

This flag argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.

--log-filter=LOG_FILTER

The metric's filter expression.

This flag argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.

--bucket-name=BUCKET_NAME

The Log Bucket name which owns the log-based metric.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

NOTES

These variants are also available:

$ gcloud alpha logging metrics create

$ gcloud beta logging metrics create