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- NAME
- gcloud beta logging metrics create - create a logs-based metric
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud beta logging metrics createMETRIC_NAME(--config-from-file=PATH_TO_FILE| [--description=DESCRIPTION--log-filter=LOG_FILTER:--bucket-name=BUCKET_NAME])[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
(BETA)Create a logs-based metric to count the number of logentries that match a filter expression. Logs-based metrics can also be used toextract 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 levelhigher than WARNING, run:
gcloudbetaloggingmetricscreatehigh_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-definedlabels, run:
gcloudbetaloggingmetricscreatemy_metric--config-from-file=$PATH_TO_FILEThe config file can be in YAML or JSON format. Detailed information about how toconfigure 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:
gcloudbetaloggingmetricscreatemy_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=PATH_TO_FILE- A path to a YAML or JSON file specifying the logs-based metric to create. Use afull or relative path to a local file containing the value of config.
- 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 groupare specified.
--log-filter=LOG_FILTER- The metric's filter expression.
This flag argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this groupare specified.
--bucket-name=BUCKET_NAME- The Log Bucket name which owns the log-based metric.
- Data about the new 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 helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. Thesevariants are also available:
gcloudloggingmetricscreategcloudalphaloggingmetricscreate
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.