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.