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 inStackdriver Monitoring.
Example:
use Google\Cloud\Logging\LoggingClient;
$logging = new LoggingClient();
$metric = $logging->metric('my-metric');
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Logging
Methods
__construct
Parameters
Name
Description
connection
Connection\ConnectionInterface
Represents a connection to Cloud
Logging. This object is created by LoggingClient,
and should not be instantiated outside of this client.
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