public sealed class GetMetricDescriptorRequest : IMessage<GetMetricDescriptorRequest>, IEquatable<GetMetricDescriptorRequest>, IDeepCloneable<GetMetricDescriptorRequest>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Monitoring v3 API class GetMetricDescriptorRequest.
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[2.5.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/2.5.0/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest)\n- [2.4.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/2.4.0/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest)\n- [2.3.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/2.3.0/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest) \n\n public sealed class GetMetricDescriptorRequest : IMessage\u003cGetMetricDescriptorRequest\u003e, IEquatable\u003cGetMetricDescriptorRequest\u003e, IDeepCloneable\u003cGetMetricDescriptorRequest\u003e, IBufferMessage, IMessage\n\nReference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Monitoring v3 API class GetMetricDescriptorRequest.\n\nThe `GetMetricDescriptor` request. \n\nInheritance\n-----------\n\n[object](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object) \\\u003e GetMetricDescriptorRequest \n\nImplements\n----------\n\n[IMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IMessage-1.html)[GetMetricDescriptorRequest](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest), [IEquatable](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.iequatable-1)[GetMetricDescriptorRequest](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest), [IDeepCloneable](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IDeepCloneable-1.html)[GetMetricDescriptorRequest](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest), [IBufferMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IBufferMessage.html), [IMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IMessage.html) \n\nInherited Members\n-----------------\n\n[object.GetHashCode()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.gethashcode) \n[object.GetType()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.gettype) \n[object.ToString()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.tostring)\n\nNamespace\n---------\n\n[Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3)\n\nAssembly\n--------\n\nGoogle.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.dll\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### GetMetricDescriptorRequest()\n\n public GetMetricDescriptorRequest()\n\n### GetMetricDescriptorRequest(GetMetricDescriptorRequest)\n\n public GetMetricDescriptorRequest(GetMetricDescriptorRequest other)\n\nProperties\n----------\n\n### MetricDescriptorName\n\n public MetricDescriptorName MetricDescriptorName { get; set; }\n\n[MetricDescriptorName](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.MetricDescriptorName)-typed view over the [Name](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest#Google_Cloud_Monitoring_V3_GetMetricDescriptorRequest_Name) resource name property.\n\n### Name\n\n public string Name { get; set; }\n\nRequired. The metric descriptor on which to execute the request. The format\nis: \n\n projects/[PROJECT_ID_OR_NUMBER]/metricDescriptors/[METRIC_ID]\n\nAn example value of `[METRIC_ID]` is\n`\"compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk/read_bytes_count\"`.\n\n### ResourceName\n\n public IResourceName ResourceName { get; set; }\n\n[IResourceName](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Api.Gax/latest/Google.Api.Gax.IResourceName.html)-typed view over the [Name](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3/latest/Google.Cloud.Monitoring.V3.GetMetricDescriptorRequest#Google_Cloud_Monitoring_V3_GetMetricDescriptorRequest_Name) resource name property."]]