---
title: "GET /api/v1/data/metrics:metadata/{metric_name}"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/data/metrics:metadata/{metric_name}"
tags: ["DataV1"]
---

# GET /api/v1/data/metrics:metadata/{metric_name}

`GET /api/v1/data/metrics:metadata/{metric_name}`

Metric Metadata

## Path parameters

- `metric_name` string, required

## Response `200`

A successful response.

- Datav1ReadMetricMetadataResponse — ReadMetricMetadataResponse contains the metadata for the requested metric.
  - `metadata` Datav1MetricMetadata — MetricMetadata contains metadata information about a metric.
    - `description` string — Human-readable description of what the metric measures.
    - `name` string — The name of the metric.
    - `source` 'PROMETHEUS' | 'STATSD' | 'OPEN_METRICS' | 'CARBON' | 'OPEN_TELEMETRY' | 'SIGNALFX' | 'WAVEFRONT' | 'DOGSTATSD' | 'CHRONO_GCP' | 'CLOUDWATCH_METRIC_STREAM' | 'CHRONO_AZURE' | 'TAGGED_STATSD' | 'CHRONO_CLOUDFLARE' | 'CHRONO_INTEGRATION' — Source is the wire format used to ingest the metric (maps to the __metric_source__ synthetic label). Metrics predating CanonicalSource tracking will have UNSPECIFIED.
    - `type` 'CUMULATIVE_COUNTER' | 'GAUGE' | 'DELTA_COUNTER' | 'MEASUREMENT' | 'CUMULATIVE_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM' | 'DELTA_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM' — MetricType defines the canonical metric types supported by the platform. - CUMULATIVE_COUNTER: A Prom-style cumulative counter, which stores a strictly increasing count of distinct events (but may reset to zero). Each datapoint stores the running total at the given timestamp. - GAUGE: A true gauge, which stores an observation of state at a point in time, where it is impossible to have two different states at a single point in time. Each datapoint stores the value at the given timestamp. - DELTA_COUNTER: A delta counter, which stores the same type of data as COUNTER, but where each datapoint stores a strictly positive delta increment at the given timestamp. - MEASUREMENT: A raw observation with some discrete value, e.g. individual request latency, individual request size, etc. Unlike a counter, each MEASUREMENT event has a discrete value. And unlike a gauge, there can be multiple values at any point in time. - CUMULATIVE_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM: An exponential histogram, where each datapoint is a structured value (not a float), which stores compressed buckets of cumulative measurement counts, along with total sum and count. - DELTA_EXPONENTIAL_HISTOGRAM: An exponential histogram, where each datapoint is a structured value (not a float), which stores compressed buckets of measurement count deltas, along with total sum and count.

## Other responses

- `default` — An unexpected error response.

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