See also Custom Metrics and Log Metrics in GCP and Error Reporting in GCP
What are Agent Based Metrics?
These are metrics reported by the stackdriver agent installed on VMs (either GCP hosted or AWS hosted).
The agent type can be a Monitoring agent or a Logging agent.
How do I filter for these metrics in GCP ?
The "metric type" strings in this table must be prefixed with agent.googleapis.com/agent/.
A list of all the metrics can be found here
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