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---
title: "Cloud Monitoring"
type: docs
weight: 1
description: >
A "cloud-monitoring" source provides a client for the Cloud Monitoring API.
aliases:
- /resources/sources/cloud-monitoring
---
## About
The `cloud-monitoring` source provides a client to interact with the [Google
Cloud Monitoring API](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api). This allows
tools to access cloud monitoring metrics explorer and run promql queries.
Authentication can be handled in two ways:
1. **Application Default Credentials (ADC):** By default, the source uses ADC
to authenticate with the API.
2. **Client-side OAuth:** If `useClientOAuth` is set to `true`, the source will
expect an OAuth 2.0 access token to be provided by the client (e.g., a web
browser) for each request.
## Example
```yaml
sources:
my-cloud-monitoring:
kind: cloud-monitoring
my-oauth-cloud-monitoring:
kind: cloud-monitoring
useClientOAuth: true
```
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|----------------|:--------:|:------------:|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| kind | string | true | Must be "cloud-monitoring". |
| useClientOAuth | boolean | false | If true, the source will use client-side OAuth for authorization. Otherwise, it will use Application Default Credentials. Defaults to `false`. |