Support location_label config in GCP Metrics Metricset

CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc

@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 - Bump aerospike-client-go to version v7.7.1 and add support for basic auth in Aerospike module {pull}41233[41233]
 - Only watch metadata for ReplicaSets in metricbeat k8s module {pull}41289[41289]
 - Add support for region/zone for Vertex AI service in GCP module {pull}41551[41551]
+- Add support for location label as a configuration parameter in GCP metrics metricset. {issue}41550[41550] {pull}41626[41626]
 
 *Metricbeat*
 

metricbeat/docs/modules/gcp.asciidoc

@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ metricbeat.modules:
   credentials_file_path: "your JSON credentials file path"
   exclude_labels: false
   period: 1m
+  location_label: "resource.labels.zone"
   metrics:
     - aligner: ALIGN_NONE
       service: compute

x-pack/metricbeat/metricbeat.reference.yml

@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ metricbeat.modules:
   credentials_file_path: "your JSON credentials file path"
   exclude_labels: false
   period: 1m
+  location_label: "resource.labels.zone"
   metrics:
     - aligner: ALIGN_NONE
       service: compute

x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/_meta/config.yml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   credentials_file_path: "your JSON credentials file path"
   exclude_labels: false
   period: 1m
+  location_label: "resource.labels.zone"
   metrics:
     - aligner: ALIGN_NONE
       service: compute

x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/_meta/docs.asciidoc

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ services under "Google Cloud metrics", but does not work for other services
 (`kubernetes` aka GKE for example).
 This option allow to override the default and specify an arbitrary metric prefix.
 
+* *location_label*: Use this option to specify the resource label that identifies the location (such as zone or region) for a Google Cloud service when filtering metrics. For example, labels like `resource.label.location` or `resource.label.zone` are used by Google Cloud to represent the region or zone of a resource.
+
 [float]
 === Example Configuration
 * `metrics` metricset is enabled to collect metrics from all zones under
@@ -134,3 +136,28 @@ metric prefix, as for GKE metrics the required prefix is `kubernetes.io/`
       metric_types:
         - "container/cpu/core_usage_time"
 ----
+
+* `metrics` metricset is enabled to collect metrics from region
+`us-east4` in `elastic-observability` project. The metric, number of replicas of the prediction model is
+collected from a new GCP service `aiplatform`. Since its a new service which is not supported by 
+default in this metricset, the user provides the servicelabel (resource.label.location), for which 
+user wants to filter the incoming data
+
++
+[source,yaml]
+----
+- module: gcp
+  metricsets:
+    - metrics
+  project_id: "elastic-observability"
+  credentials_json: "your JSON credentials"
+  exclude_labels: false
+  period: 1m
+  location_label: "resource.label.location"
+  regions:
+  - us-east4
+  metrics:
+    - service: aiplatform
+      metric_types:
+          - "prediction/online/replicas"
+----

x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metrics_requester.go

@@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ func (r *metricsRequester) getFilterForMetric(serviceName, m string) string {
 	// to apply any additional filters.
 	if locationsConfigsAvailable && !isAGlobalService(serviceName) {
 		serviceLabel := getServiceLabelFor(serviceName)
+		// If user has entered a location label, overide the serviceLabel with the locationlabel
+		if r.config.LocationLabel != "" {
+			serviceLabel = r.config.LocationLabel
+		}
 		f = r.buildLocationFilter(serviceLabel, f)
 	}
 

x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metrics_requester_test.go

@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ func TestGetFilterForMetric(t *testing.T) {
 			metricsRequester{config: config{Region: "foobar", Regions: []string{"foo", "bar"}}, logger: logger},
 			"metric.type=\"dummy\" AND resource.labels.zone = starts_with(\"foobar\")",
 		},
+		{
+			"aiplatform service with configured region and zone",
+			"aiplatform",
+			"",
+			metricsRequester{config: config{Region: "foo", Zone: "bar", LocationLabel: "resource.label.location"}, logger: logger},
+			"metric.type=\"dummy\" AND resource.label.location = starts_with(\"foo\")",
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, c := range cases {

x-pack/metricbeat/module/gcp/metrics/metricset.go

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ type config struct {
 	Zone                string   `config:"zone"`
 	Region              string   `config:"region"`
 	Regions             []string `config:"regions"`
+	LocationLabel       string   `config:"location_label"`
 	ProjectID           string   `config:"project_id" validate:"required"`
 	ExcludeLabels       bool     `config:"exclude_labels"`
 	CredentialsFilePath string   `config:"credentials_file_path"`

x-pack/metricbeat/modules.d/gcp.yml.disabled

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
   credentials_file_path: "your JSON credentials file path"
   exclude_labels: false
   period: 1m
+  location_label: "resource.labels.zone"
   metrics:
     - aligner: ALIGN_NONE
       service: compute