Package stackdriver contains the OpenCensus exporters for Stackdriver Monitoring and Stackdriver Tracing. This exporter can be used to send metrics to Stackdriver Monitoring and traces to Stackdriver trace. The package uses Application Default Credentials to authenticate by default. See: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials Alternatively, pass the authentication options in both the MonitoringClientOptions and the TraceClientOptions fields of Options. This exporter support exporting OpenCensus views to Stackdriver Monitoring. Each registered view becomes a metric in Stackdriver Monitoring, with the tags becoming labels. The aggregation function determines the metric kind: LastValue aggregations generate Gauge metrics and all other aggregations generate Cumulative metrics. In order to be able to push your stats to Stackdriver Monitoring, you must: These steps enable the API but don't require that your app is hosted on Google Cloud Platform. This exporter supports exporting Trace Spans to Stackdriver Trace. It also supports the Google "Cloud Trace" propagation format header.