Stackdriver Logging Client - Class Metric (1.26.0)

Reference documentation and code samples for the Stackdriver Logging Client class Metric.

A metric counts the number of log entries that match a given filter. You can use these metrics to create charts and alerting policies in Stackdriver Monitoring .

Example:

 use Google\Cloud\Logging\LoggingClient;

$logging = new LoggingClient();

$metric = $logging->metric('my-metric'); 

Check whether or not the metric exists.

Example:

 if ($metric->exists()) {
    echo 'Metric exists!';
} 

Delete the metric.

Example:

 $metric->delete(); 

Update the metric. Please note this will trigger a network request if cached data is not available to perform the update with.

Example:

 $metric->update([
    'description' => 'A description for my metric.'
]); 

Retrieves the metric's details. If no metric data is cached a network request will be made to retrieve it.

Example:

 $info = $metric->info();
echo $info['description']; 

Triggers a network request to reload the metric's details.

Example:

 $metric->reload();
$info = $metric->info();
echo $info['description']; 

Returns the metric's name.

Example:

 echo $metric->name();