This template creates a Stackdriver Metric Descriptor.

• Install gcloud
• Create a GCP project, set up billing, enable requisite APIs
• Create a Stackdriver Workspace
• Log in to the Stackdriver Workspace where the metric has to be deployed
• Grant the monitoring.admin IAM role to the Deployment Manager service account

• projects.metricDescriptors
• GCP metric list
• AWS metric list
• Stackdriver Agent metric list
• External metric list

See the properties section in the schema file(s):

• Stackdriver Metric Descriptor

1. Clone the Deployment Manager samples repository

   git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-toolkit

2. Go to the dm directory

   cd dm

3. Copy the example DM config to be used as a model for the deployment, in this case examples/stackdriver_metric_descriptor.yaml

   cp templates/stackdriver_metric_descriptor/examples/stackdriver_metric_descriptor.yaml my_metric_descriptor.yaml

4. Change the values in the config file to match your specific GCP setup. Refer to the properties in the schema files described above.

   vim my_metric_descriptor.yaml  # <== Replace <FIXME:...> placeholders if any

5. Set the project context to use the Stackdriver Workspace project

   gcloud config set project <STACKDRIVER_WORKSPACE_PROJECT_ID>

6. Create your deployment as described below, replacing <YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME> with your with your own deployment name

   gcloud deployment-manager deployments create <YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME> \
       --config my_metric_descriptor.yaml

7. In case you need to delete your deployment

   gcloud deployment-manager deployments delete <YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME>

• Stackdriver Metric Descriptor