---
id: google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards
version: "2.22.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards — Google Cloud Monitoring Dashboards API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 245.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is Google's official Python client library for the Cloud Monitoring Dashboards API. It provides typed, idiomatic Python bindings to create, read, update, and delete monitoring dashboards in Google Cloud Platform. The library handles authentication, RPC marshalling, and protocol buffer serialization automatically, built on top of google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, and protobuf.

Developers use it to automate dashboard provisioning, manage monitoring configurations as code, and integrate dashboard lifecycle management into CI/CD pipelines or infrastructure-as-code workflows. It's a thin, generated wrapper around Google's gRPC service definition, so it closely mirrors the underlying Cloud Monitoring API surface.

Use it for:

- Automate dashboard creation and configuration as part of infrastructure-as-code deployments to GCP.
- Programmatically update monitoring dashboards when application metrics or alerting rules change.
- Bulk manage dashboards across multiple GCP projects or environments from a Python script.
- Integrate dashboard provisioning into CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent monitoring setup.
- Build custom dashboard templates and deploy them to multiple teams or environments.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Python client library for Google Cloud Monitoring Dashboards API, enabling programmatic creation, configuration, and management of monitoring dashboards in Google Cloud Platform.

Yes. This is the official, actively maintained Google Cloud client library for dashboards. Install it if you need to manage Cloud Monitoring dashboards programmatically from Python. Low install friction, no security vulnerabilities, permissive license, and current Python version support make it a straightforward choice for GCP-native monitoring automation.

## Install

pip install google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards
uv add google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards
poetry add google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards

## Installing google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained as of 2026-06-22 with recent activity; supports current Python versions (3.10+). Standard Google Cloud client library with stable dependencies.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows use in commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions; requires only license and copyright notice retention.

Quickstart:

pip install google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards

from google.cloud import monitoring_dashboards_v1

client = monitoring_dashboards_v1.DashboardsServiceClient()
# Use client to create or manage dashboards

Requires Google Cloud authentication setup (service account key or Application Default Credentials) and an active GCP project with Cloud Monitoring enabled.

Verify before relying:

- Specific dashboard creation/update/delete capabilities and API surface coverage beyond the generic client library role.
- Whether the library supports all current Cloud Monitoring dashboard features or if some require direct REST API calls.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 245.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

google cloud monitoring dashboards api, cloud monitoring client library python, gcp dashboard management, cloud monitoring configuration, google cloud monitoring python sdk, gcp, monitoring, cloud-api

[View on SkillFed](https://skillfed.io/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards) · [View on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/)