---
title: "Metric Names"
method: GET
path: "/applications/{application_id}/metrics.json"
tags: ["Applications"]
---

# Metric Names

`GET /applications/{application_id}/metrics.json`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.newrelic.com/v2`
- URL: `https://api.newrelic.com/v2/applications/{application_id}/metrics.json`
- Auth: API key in header `Api-Key`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/newrelic/apis/new-relic-rest-api-v2/docs/applications/:application_id/metrics.json/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Return a list of known metrics and their value names for the given resource.

See our documentation for a discussion on [output pagination](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/pagination-api-output) and for examples of [requesting and using metric values](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apis/rest-api-v2/requirements/new-relic-rest-api-v2-getting-started#examples).

## Path parameters

- `application_id` integer, required

## Query parameters

- `name` string
- `page` integer
- `cursor` string

## Response `200`

No response was specified

- MetricParserResponse
  - `metric` MetricParserResponseType
    - `name` string
    - `values` string[]

---

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