---
title: Google Cloud Platform pubsub metricset
description: PubSub metricsetf fetches metrics from Pub/Sub topics and subscriptions in Google Cloud Platform. The pubsub metricset contains all GA stage metrics exported...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-gcp-pubsub
products:
  - Beats
  - Metricbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Google Cloud Platform pubsub metricset
PubSub metricsetf fetches metrics from [Pub/Sub](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/) topics and subscriptions in Google Cloud Platform.
The `pubsub` metricset contains all GA stage metrics exported from the [Stackdriver API](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp#gcp-pubsub). The field names are aligned to [Beats naming conventions](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/beats/event-conventions) with minor modifications to their GCP metrics name counterpart.
No special permissions are needed apart from the ones detailed in the module section of the docs.
This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

## Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the [exported fields](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/beats/metricbeat/exported-fields-gcp) section.
Here is an example document generated by this metricset:
```json
{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "elastic-observability"
        },
        "provider": "gcp"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "gcp.pubsub",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "gcp"
    },
    "gcp": {
        "labels": {
            "resource": {
                "subscription_id": "test-subscription-1"
            }
        },
        "pubsub": {
            "subscription": {
                "backlog_bytes": {
                    "value": 0
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "pubsub",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "gcp"
    }
}
```