Stackdriver (Stats)

• Introduction
• Installing the exporter
• Creating the exporters
• Viewing your metrics
• References

Introduction

Stackdriver Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications. Stackdriver collects metrics, events, and metadata from Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, hosted uptime probes, application instrumentation, and a variety of common application components including Cassandra, Nginx, Apache Web Server, Elasticsearch, and many others. Stackdriver ingests that data and generates insights via dashboards, charts, and alerts. Stackdriver alerting helps you collaborate by integrating with Slack, PagerDuty, HipChat, Campfire, and more.

OpenCensus Node has support for this exporter available through package:

Installing the exporter

You can install OpenCensus Stackdriver Exporter by running these steps:

npm install @opencensus/core
npm install @opencensus/exporter-stackdriver

Creating the exporter

To create the exporter, you’ll need to:

• Have a GCP Project ID
• Have already enabled Stackdriver Monitoring, if not, please visit the Code lab
• Enable your Application Default Credentials for authentication with:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=path/to/your/credential.json

• Create the exporters in code

const { globalStats } = require('@opencensus/core');
const { StackdriverStatsExporter } = require('@opencensus/exporter-stackdriver');

// Add your project id to the Stackdriver options
const exporter = new StackdriverStatsExporter({projectId: "your-project-id"});

globalStats.registerExporter(exporter);

Viewing your metrics

Please visit https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring

References