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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets.py
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import argparse
import os
import pprint
import random
import time

from google.cloud import monitoring_v3


# Avoid collisions with other runs
RANDOM_SUFFIX = str(random.randint(1000, 9999))


def create_metric_descriptor(project_id):
# [START monitoring_create_metric]
client = monitoring_v3.MetricServiceClient()
project_name = client.project_path(project_id)
descriptor = monitoring_v3.types.MetricDescriptor()
descriptor.type = 'custom.googleapis.com/my_metric'
descriptor.type = 'custom.googleapis.com/my_metric' + RANDOM_SUFFIX
descriptor.metric_kind = (
monitoring_v3.enums.MetricDescriptor.MetricKind.GAUGE)
descriptor.value_type = (
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project_name = client.project_path(project_id)

series = monitoring_v3.types.TimeSeries()
series.metric.type = 'custom.googleapis.com/my_metric'
series.metric.type = 'custom.googleapis.com/my_metric' + RANDOM_SUFFIX
series.resource.type = 'gce_instance'
series.resource.labels['instance_id'] = '1234567890123456789'
series.resource.labels['zone'] = 'us-central1-f'
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