Feature Request: Support for GCP User Labels in Stackdriver Prometheus Exporter

[spotadarsp]

We are developing a new product to collect Google Cloud resource metrics and push them to Grafana Cloud. During implementation, we noticed that the Stackdriver Prometheus Exporter (prometheus.exporter.gcp) does not expose userlabels from GCP resources.
While the exporter correctly maps Stackdriver metrics and their associated resource labels to Prometheus, custom userLabels defined on GCP resources (e.g., Compute Engine, Cloud SQL) are not included in the exported metrics.

Feature Request:
We would like to request support for exposing userLabels from Google Cloud resources as Prometheus metric labels in the Stackdriver Prometheus Exporter.

Example userLabels:
environment=dev
team=striker
monitoring=true

Benefits / Use Cases:

• Adding support for userLabels would greatly enhance the flexibility and observability of GCP metrics. Key use cases include:
• Dynamically filtering metrics in Prometheus or Grafana using userLabels.
• Creating targeted alerts (e.g., suppress alerts for monitoring=false).
• Grouping and visualizing metrics by team, environment, or service ownership.

Implementation Suggestion:

• Extend the exporter’s logic to fetch userLabels from the resource.labels field for each monitored GCP resource.
• Map these userLabels to Prometheus metric labels during export.
• Provide an optional configuration or flag (e.g., --include-user-labels) to enable or disable this behavior.

[spotadarsp]

Since there’s no direct solution available for collecting or retrieving Userlabels of GCP resources, we’re proceeding with the following approach:

Collect labels of all GCP resources.
Collect metrics using the Stackdriver (Cloud Monitoring) API.
Map the collected labels with the corresponding metrics.
Convert the mapped data into Prometheus-compatible format.
Push the metrics to Grafana Cloud for visualization and alerting.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or inputs on this approach.

Best regards,
Shubham Potadar

[spotadarsp]

Feature Request:
We would like to request support for exposing userLabels from Google Cloud resources as Prometheus metric labels in the open-source Stackdriver Prometheus Exporter.

Could you please let us know if there is any expected timeline for this feature or if it is currently on the roadmap?