Do not collect Google Cloud metadata

metricbeat/docs/modules/googlecloud.asciidoc

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ You can play in IAM pretty much with your service accounts and Instance level ac
 
 Google Cloud Platform offers the https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp[Stackdriver Monitoring API] to fetch metrics from its services. *Those metrics are retrieved one by one*.
 
-If you also want to *extract service metadata and labels* (by setting `exclude_labels` to false, which is the default state). You also make a new API check on the corresponding service. Service labels requires a new API call to extract those metrics. In the worst case the number of API calls will be doubled. In the best case, all metrics come from the same GCP entity and 100% of the required information is included in the first API call (which is cached for subsequent calls).
+If you also want to *extract service labels* (by setting `exclude_labels` to false, which is the default state). You also make a new API check on the corresponding service. Service labels requires a new API call to extract those metrics. In the worst case the number of API calls will be doubled. In the best case, all metrics come from the same GCP entity and 100% of the required information is included in the first API call (which is cached for subsequent calls).
 
 A recommended `period` value between fetches is between 5 and 10 minutes, depending on how granular you want your metrics. GCP restricts information for less than 5 minutes.
 

x-pack/metricbeat/module/googlecloud/_meta/docs.asciidoc

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ You can play in IAM pretty much with your service accounts and Instance level ac
 
 Google Cloud Platform offers the https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp[Stackdriver Monitoring API] to fetch metrics from its services. *Those metrics are retrieved one by one*.
 
-If you also want to *extract service metadata and labels* (by setting `exclude_labels` to false, which is the default state). You also make a new API check on the corresponding service. Service labels requires a new API call to extract those metrics. In the worst case the number of API calls will be doubled. In the best case, all metrics come from the same GCP entity and 100% of the required information is included in the first API call (which is cached for subsequent calls).
+If you also want to *extract service labels* (by setting `exclude_labels` to false, which is the default state). You also make a new API check on the corresponding service. Service labels requires a new API call to extract those metrics. In the worst case the number of API calls will be doubled. In the best case, all metrics come from the same GCP entity and 100% of the required information is included in the first API call (which is cached for subsequent calls).
 
 A recommended `period` value between fetches is between 5 and 10 minutes, depending on how granular you want your metrics. GCP restricts information for less than 5 minutes.
 

x-pack/metricbeat/module/googlecloud/stackdriver/compute/metadata.go

@@ -90,9 +90,13 @@ func (s *metadataCollector) Metadata(ctx context.Context, resp *monitoringpb.Tim
 		metadataCollectorData.Labels[googlecloud.LabelUser] = s.computeMetadata.User
 	}
 
-	if s.computeMetadata.Metadata != nil {
-		metadataCollectorData.Labels[googlecloud.LabelMetadata] = s.computeMetadata.Metadata
-	}
+	/*
+		Do not collect meta for now, as it can contain sensitive info
+		TODO revisit this and make meta available through whitelisting
+		if s.computeMetadata.Metadata != nil {
+			metadataCollectorData.Labels[googlecloud.LabelMetadata] = s.computeMetadata.Metadata
+		}
+	*/
 
 	return metadataCollectorData, nil
 }