Accept prefix as metric_types for stackdriver metricset in GCP

CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc

@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Add memory metrics into compute googlecloud. {pull}18802[18802]
 - Add new fields to HAProxy module. {issue}18523[18523]
 - Add Tomcat overview dashboard {pull}14026[14026]
+- Accept prefix as metric_types config parameter in googlecloud stackdriver metricset. {pull}19345[19345]
 - Update Couchbase to version 6.5 {issue}18595[18595] {pull}19055[19055]
 - Add dashboards for googlecloud load balancing metricset. {pull}18369[18369]
 - Add support for v1 consumer API in Cloud Foundry module, use it by default. {pull}19268[19268]

x-pack/metricbeat/module/googlecloud/stackdriver/_meta/docs.asciidoc

@@ -16,19 +16,20 @@ call.
 [float]
 == Metricset config and parameters
 
-* *metric_types*: Required, a list of metric type strings. Each call of the
+* *metric_types*: Required, a list of metric type strings, or a list of metric
+type prefixes. For example, `instance/cpu` is the prefix for metric type
+`instance/cpu/usage_time`, `instance/cpu/utilization` etc Each call of the
 `ListTimeSeries` API can return any number of time series from a single metric
 type. Metric type is to used for identifying a specific time series.
 
 * *aligner*: A single string with which aggregation operation need to be applied
 onto time series data for ListTimeSeries API. If it's not given, default aligner
-is set to be `ALIGN_NONE`. Google Cloud also supports `ALIGN_DELTA`, `ALIGN_RATE`,
-`ALIGN_MIN`, `ALIGN_MAX`, `ALIGN_MEAN`, `ALIGN_COUNT`, `ALIGN_SUM` and etc.
+is `ALIGN_NONE`. Google Cloud also supports `ALIGN_DELTA`, `ALIGN_RATE`,
+`ALIGN_MIN`, `ALIGN_MAX`, `ALIGN_MEAN`, `ALIGN_COUNT`, `ALIGN_SUM` etc.
 Please see
 https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rpc/google.monitoring.v3#aligner[Aggregation Aligner]
 for the full list of aligners.
 
-
 [float]
 === Example Configuration
 * `stackdriver` metricset is enabled to collect metrics from all zones under
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ are specified: first one is to collect CPU usage time and utilization with
 aggregation aligner ALIGN_MEAN; second one is to collect uptime with aggregation
 aligner ALIGN_SUM. These metric types all have 240 seconds ingest delay time and
 60 seconds sample period. With `period` specified as `300s` in the config below,
-Metricbeat will collect compute metrics from googlecloud every 5-minute with
+Metricbeat will collect compute metrics from Google Cloud every 5-minute with
 given aggregation aligner applied for each metric type.
 +
 [source,yaml]
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ are specified: first one is to collect CPU usage time and utilization with
 aggregation aligner ALIGN_MEAN; second one is to collect uptime with aggregation
 aligner ALIGN_SUM. These metric types all have 240 seconds ingest delay time and
 60 seconds sample period. With `period` specified as `60s` in the config below,
-Metricbeat will collect compute metrics from googlecloud every minute with no
+Metricbeat will collect compute metrics from Google Cloud every minute with no
 aggregation. This case, the aligners specified in the configuration will be
 ignored.
 +
@@ -94,3 +95,32 @@ ignored.
       metric_types:
         - "instance/uptime"
 ----
+
+* `stackdriver` metricset is enabled to collect metrics from all zones under
+`europe-west1-c` region in `elastic-observability` project. One set of metrics
+will be collected: metric types that starts with `instance/cpu` under `compute`
+service with aligner ALIGN_NONE. These metric types all have 240 seconds ingest
+delay time and 60 seconds sample period. With `period` specified as `1m` in
+the config below, Metricbeat will collect compute metrics from Google Cloud
+every minute with no aggregation. The metric types in `compute` service with
+`instance/cpu` prefix are: `instance/cpu/reserved_cores`,
+`instance/cpu/scheduler_wait_time`, `instance/cpu/usage_time`, and
+`instance/cpu/utilization`.
+
++
+[source,yaml]
+----
+- module: googlecloud
+  metricsets:
+    - stackdriver
+  zone: "europe-west1-c"
+  project_id: elastic-observability
+  credentials_file_path: "your JSON credentials file path"
+  exclude_labels: false
+  period: 1m
+  metrics:
+    - aligner: ALIGN_NONE
+      service: compute
+      metric_types:
+        - "instance/cpu"
+----

x-pack/metricbeat/module/googlecloud/stackdriver/metrics_requester.go

@@ -76,17 +76,16 @@ func (r *stackdriverMetricsRequester) Metrics(ctx context.Context, sdc stackDriv
 	results := make([]timeSeriesWithAligner, 0)
 
 	aligner := sdc.Aligner
-	serviceName := sdc.ServiceName
-	for _, mt := range sdc.MetricTypes {
+	for mt, meta := range metricsMeta {
 		wg.Add(1)
 
+		metricMeta := meta
 		go func(mt string) {
 			defer wg.Done()
 
-			metricMeta := metricsMeta[mt]
 			r.logger.Debugf("For metricType %s, metricMeta = %s", mt, metricMeta)
 			interval, aligner := getTimeIntervalAligner(metricMeta.ingestDelay, metricMeta.samplePeriod, r.config.period, aligner)
-			ts := r.Metric(ctx, serviceName+".googleapis.com/"+mt, interval, aligner)
+			ts := r.Metric(ctx, mt, interval, aligner)
 			lock.Lock()
 			defer lock.Unlock()
 			results = append(results, ts)

x-pack/metricbeat/module/googlecloud/stackdriver/metricset.go

@@ -9,13 +9,12 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/duration"
-
 	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3"
-
+	"github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/duration"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
-
+	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
 	"google.golang.org/api/option"
+	"google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api/metric"
 	monitoringpb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/monitoring/v3"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/common"
@@ -216,41 +215,54 @@ func (mc *stackDriverConfig) Validate() error {
 // (sample period and ingest delay) of each given metric type
 func (m *MetricSet) metricDescriptor(ctx context.Context, client *monitoring.MetricClient) (map[string]metricMeta, error) {
 	metricsWithMeta := make(map[string]metricMeta, 0)
+	req := &monitoringpb.ListMetricDescriptorsRequest{
+		Name: "projects/" + m.config.ProjectID,
+	}
 
 	for _, sdc := range m.stackDriverConfig {
 		for _, mt := range sdc.MetricTypes {
-			req := &monitoringpb.ListMetricDescriptorsRequest{
-				Name:   "projects/" + m.config.ProjectID,
-				Filter: fmt.Sprintf(`metric.type = "%s"`, sdc.ServiceName+".googleapis.com/"+mt),
-			}
-
+			req.Filter = fmt.Sprintf(`metric.type = starts_with("%s")`, sdc.ServiceName+".googleapis.com/"+mt)
 			it := client.ListMetricDescriptors(ctx, req)
-			out, err := it.Next()
-			if err != nil {
-				err = errors.Errorf("Could not make ListMetricDescriptors request: %s: %v", mt, err)
-				m.Logger().Error(err)
-				return metricsWithMeta, err
-			}
 
-			// Set samplePeriod default to 60 seconds and ingestDelay default to 0.
-			meta := metricMeta{
-				samplePeriod: 60 * time.Second,
-				ingestDelay:  0 * time.Second,
+			for {
+				out, err := it.Next()
+				if err != nil && err != iterator.Done {
+					err = errors.Errorf("Could not make ListMetricDescriptors request for metric type %s: %v", mt, err)
+					m.Logger().Error(err)
+					return metricsWithMeta, err
+				}
+
+				if out != nil {
+					metricsWithMeta = m.getMetadata(out, metricsWithMeta)
+				}
+
+				if err == iterator.Done {
+					break
+				}
 			}
+		}
+	}
 
-			if out.Metadata.SamplePeriod != nil {
-				m.Logger().Debugf("For metric type %s: sample period = %s", mt, out.Metadata.SamplePeriod)
-				meta.samplePeriod = time.Duration(out.Metadata.SamplePeriod.Seconds) * time.Second
-			}
+	return metricsWithMeta, nil
+}
 
-			if out.Metadata.IngestDelay != nil {
-				m.Logger().Debugf("For metric type %s: ingest delay = %s", mt, out.Metadata.IngestDelay)
-				meta.ingestDelay = time.Duration(out.Metadata.IngestDelay.Seconds) * time.Second
-			}
+func (m *MetricSet) getMetadata(out *metric.MetricDescriptor, metricsWithMeta map[string]metricMeta) map[string]metricMeta {
+	// Set samplePeriod default to 60 seconds and ingestDelay default to 0.
+	meta := metricMeta{
+		samplePeriod: 60 * time.Second,
+		ingestDelay:  0 * time.Second,
+	}
 
-			metricsWithMeta[mt] = meta
-		}
+	if out.Metadata.SamplePeriod != nil {
+		m.Logger().Debugf("For metric type %s: sample period = %s", out.Type, out.Metadata.SamplePeriod)
+		meta.samplePeriod = time.Duration(out.Metadata.SamplePeriod.Seconds) * time.Second
 	}
 
-	return metricsWithMeta, nil
+	if out.Metadata.IngestDelay != nil {
+		m.Logger().Debugf("For metric type %s: ingest delay = %s", out.Type, out.Metadata.IngestDelay)
+		meta.ingestDelay = time.Duration(out.Metadata.IngestDelay.Seconds) * time.Second
+	}
+
+	metricsWithMeta[out.Type] = meta
+	return metricsWithMeta
 }