getApplicationDefault is undefined.

[neoadventist]

running the create_custom_metric on line https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples/blob/master/monitoring/create_custom_metric.js#L218

the object google.auth looks like

{ Compute: [Function], JWT: [Function], OAuth2: [Function] }

no getApplicationDefault function

I'm supplying a project id, is there something i'm doing wrong here?

Thanks.

[neoadventist]

trying to use this with stackdriver.

[jmdobry]

Can you post your error? And did you set the GCLOUD_PROJECT and GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variables? See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples#prerequisites

[neoadventist]

@jmdobry yeah got it working now. I did not have the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS env set. now i'm trying to get the custom metric to be visible on a dashboard. Do you know where I can go to for that?

[jmdobry]

Have you looked through https://app.google.stackdriver.com/ for your custom metric? You might have to write some data to the custom metric before it will show up. You also might have to create a new dashboard or alert targeting the metric. @waprin probably knows more.

[neoadventist]

There are a thousand sub-menus, but I can't find the metric when I try to add a graph.

[waprin]

You should see "Custom Metrics" as an option under "Resource Type". If you don't, you probably haven't successfully created any custom metric descriptors.

[neoadventist]

@waprin any documentation to show me on how to do that?

[neoadventist]

so I can successfully create it under the code but not see it in the UI until i make a descriptor?

[waprin]

You are creating a metric descriptor, you create metrics when you actually write values to it. As soon as you create it you should be able to see it, one guess at your problem is by default the sample code deletes the metric descriptor after creating it. This was in the interest of keeping projects cleaned up, check to make sure you've commented that part out.

[waprin]

Unfortunately I agree the docs no the UI are a bit sparse, working on improving that now but nothing's ready yet.

[neoadventist]

@waprin yeah I commented that part out. Company tasked me to see if moving to google cloud to monitor our aws infrastructure would be a good fit. If I could figure this part out then I could move forward with the whole thing.

[neoadventist]

Created custom metric { name: 'projects/hopskipdrive-1138/metricDescriptors/custom.googleapis.com/custom_measurement',
  labels: [ { key: 'environment', description: 'An abritrary measurement' } ],
  metricKind: 'GAUGE',
  valueType: 'INT64',
  unit: 'items',
  description: 'An arbitrary measurement.',
  displayName: 'Custom Metric',
  type: 'custom.googleapis.com/custom_measurement' }
Wrote time series {}
Reading metric type custom.googleapis.com/custom_measurement
Time series { timeSeries:
   [ { metric: [Object],
       resource: [Object],
       metricKind: 'GAUGE',
       valueType: 'INT64',
       points: [Object] } ] }
null [ { name: 'projects/hopskipdrive-1138/metricDescriptors/custom.googleapis.com/custom_measurement',
    labels: [ [Object] ],
    metricKind: 'GAUGE',
    valueType: 'INT64',
    unit: 'items',
    description: 'An arbitrary measurement.',
    displayName: 'Custom Metric',
    type: 'custom.googleapis.com/custom_measurement' },
  {},
  { timeSeries: [ [Object] ] } ]

Is the output, can't see it in the UI though.

[waprin]

Have you tried refreshing the UI page? I needed to (some of these single-page apps don't always pickup backend changes correctly without a refresh, though they of course should).

It's working on my end, hard to say if you're making a small mistake or if there is a subtle problem on our end:

(logging)waprin-macbookpro:monitoring waprin$ node create_custom_metric.js bill-stackdriver-experiment custom_metric3 Created custom metric { name: 'projects/bill-stackdriver-experiment/metricDescriptors/custom.googleapis.com/custom_metric3', labels: [ { key: 'environment', description: 'An abritrary measurement' } ], metricKind: 'GAUGE', valueType: 'INT64', unit: 'items', description: 'An arbitrary measurement.', displayName: 'Custom Metric', type: 'custom.googleapis.com/custom_metric3' } Wrote time series {} Reading metric type custom.googleapis.com/custom_metric3 Time series { timeSeries: [ { metric: [Object], resource: [Object], metricKind: 'GAUGE', valueType: 'INT64', points: [Object] } ] }

[neoadventist]

@waprin ahhh! Should it matter if I'm using a service account or not? I'm not getting Custom Metrics as a resource type at all. How can I verify i'm looking at the correct project id?

[waprin]

Based on your output your project id should be hopskipdrive-1138 which should match the project-id in the top right corner of the console.

I would recommend using service accounts, we have other ways of auth but it's by far the approach least likely to give you problems as long as the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is correctly set.

Are you trying to use a Google Cloud project to create a metric in the same Google Cloud project? If you're trying to do cross-project monitoring, things might have to be slightly different.

[neoadventist]

Yeah it was a mistake. gcloud isn't required if i set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS properly?

[neoadventist]

[jmdobry]

gcloud isn't required if i set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS properly?

gcloud is one of two Node.js client libraries that supports Google Cloud Platform services. However, gcloud does not yet support the Monitoring API, so you're limited to the googleapis libraries to interact with the Monitoring API (for now). Both gcloud and googleapis can use the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable in order to authenticate requests.