Description
Component(s)
receiver/googlecloudmonitoring
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Of the different Value types documented in the Google Cloud Monitoring API, the googlecloudmonitoring receiver currently supports INT64 and DOUBLE, and gives an info level log for others, eg
Unhandled metric value type: {"Type": {"DistributionValue":{REDACTED} and pushes the metric along in the pipeline, without a valid value.
Distribution Value Type is the 3rd most common type in the list of metrics published by GCP (~227 metric matches), and only slightly behind DOUBLE (~417 metric matches). It is also the type on metrics which are very desirable to monitor, such as system latency.
Describe the solution you'd like
Support for the Distribution Value Type.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Not aware of what alternatives exist - with this component dropping all data of the unsupported Distribution type, there's also no way to process it downstream and make those metrics usable before full support is added.
Additional context
No response