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opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter

Provides support for exporting metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring

25 releases (9 breaking)

Uses new Rust 2024

0.22.1 Dec 27, 2025
0.21.0 Dec 27, 2025
0.19.0 Oct 24, 2025
0.18.0 Jul 24, 2025
0.11.11 Sep 16, 2024

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OpenTelemetry Google Cloud Monitoring Exporter

Latest Version unsafe

This library provides support for exporting metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring.

For resource detection see opentelemetry-resourcedetector-gcp-rust.

GCP Permissions

Role: Monitoring Metric Writer (roles/monitoring.metricWriter) or permissions: monitoring.metricDescriptors.create, monitoring.timeSeries.create

Support OpenTelemetry SDK versions

opentelemetry_sdk:0.31 | opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter:0.22
opentelemetry_sdk:0.31 | opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter:0.19.1
opentelemetry_sdk:0.30 | opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter:0.18
opentelemetry_sdk:0.29 | opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter:0.16
opentelemetry_sdk:0.28 | opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter:0.15
opentelemetry_sdk:0.21-27 | opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter:0.14

Installation

cargo add opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter - exporter

cargo add opentelemetry_resourcedetector_gcp_rust - gcp resource detection

or add to cargo.toml

[dependencies]
opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter = { path = "../..", features = [
    "tokio",
] }
tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
opentelemetry = { version = "0.31", features = ["metrics"] }
opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.31", features = [
    "metrics",
    "rt-tokio",
    "experimental_metrics_periodicreader_with_async_runtime",
] }
opentelemetry_resourcedetector_gcp_rust = "0.20.0"

Usage

use opentelemetry::{metrics::MeterProvider as _, KeyValue};
use opentelemetry_gcloud_monitoring_exporter::{GCPMetricsExporter, GCPMetricsExporterConfig};
use opentelemetry_resourcedetector_gcp_rust::GoogleCloudResourceDetector;
use opentelemetry_sdk::{
    metrics::{periodic_reader_with_async_runtime, SdkMeterProvider},
    Resource,
};
use std::time::Duration;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let mut cfg = GCPMetricsExporterConfig::default();
    cfg.prefix = "custom.googleapis.com/test_service".to_string();
    let exporter = GCPMetricsExporter::init(cfg).await?;
        // https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/blob/main/opentelemetry-sdk/CHANGELOG.md#0310
    let reader =
        periodic_reader_with_async_runtime::PeriodicReader::builder(exporter, runtime::Tokio)
            .build();
    // let reader = PeriodicReader::builder(exporter).build();
    let gcp_detector = Box::new(GoogleCloudResourceDetector::new().await);
    // if we deploy to cloud run or vm instance in gcp we should specify namespace
    // if we don't have namespace we can specify it how 'default'
    let res = Resource::builder_empty()
        .with_attributes(vec![KeyValue::new("service.namespace", "default")])
        .with_detector(gcp_detector)
        .build();
    let meter_provider = SdkMeterProvider::builder()
        .with_resource(res)
        .with_reader(reader)
        .build();

    let meter = meter_provider.meter("user-event-test");

    let counter = meter
        .f64_counter("counter_f64_test")
        .with_description("test_decription")
        .with_unit("test_unit")
        .build();

    loop {
        // Record measurements using the Counter instrument.
        counter.add(
            1.0,
            &[
                KeyValue::new("mykey1", "myvalue1"),
                KeyValue::new("mykey2", "myvalue2"),
            ],
        );
        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(300)).await;
    }
}

Customize metric resource in google monitoring

    let mut cfg = GCPMetricsExporterConfig::default();
    cfg.prefix = "custom.googleapis.com/test_service".to_string();

    // customize metric resource in google monitoring
    cfg.custom_monitored_resource_data = Some(
        // https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/resources#tag_global
        MonitoredResourceDataConfig {
            r#type: "global".to_string(),
            labels: HashMap::from([
                ("project_id".to_string(), "my-project".to_string()),
            ]),
        },
    );
    let exporter = GCPMetricsExporter::init(cfg).await?;
    let reader = PeriodicReader::builder(exporter).build();
    SdkMeterProvider::builder()
        .with_reader(reader)
        .build();

References

Test cases from this repo

opentelemetry-exporter-gcp-monitoring python version

Dependencies

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