List all billable metrics

GET

billable_metrics

LAGO_URL="https://api.getlago.com"
API_KEY="__YOUR_API_KEY__"

curl --location --request GET "$LAGO_URL/api/v1/billable_metrics?per_page=2&page=1" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"

{
  "billable_metrics": [
    {
      "lago_id": "1a901a90-1a90-1a90-1a90-1a901a901a90",
      "name": "Storage",
      "code": "storage",
      "description": "GB of storage used in my application",
      "recurring": false,
      "rounding_function": "round",
      "rounding_precision": 2,
      "created_at": "2022-09-14T16:35:31Z",
      "expression": "round((ended_at - started_at) * units)",
      "field_name": "gb",
      "aggregation_type": "sum_agg",
      "weighted_interval": "seconds",
      "filters": [
        {
          "key": "region",
          "values": [
            "us-east-1"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "current_page": 2,
    "next_page": 3,
    "prev_page": 1,
    "total_pages": 4,
    "total_count": 70
  }
}

LAGO_URL="https://api.getlago.com"
API_KEY="__YOUR_API_KEY__"

curl --location --request GET "$LAGO_URL/api/v1/billable_metrics?per_page=2&page=1" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

page

integer

Page number.

per_page

integer

Number of records per page.

Response

200

application/json

List of billable metrics

billable_metrics

object[]

required

billable_metrics.lago_id

string

required

Unique identifier of the billable metric created by Lago.

billable_metrics.name

string

required

Name of the billable metric.

billable_metrics.code

string

required

Unique code used to identify the billable metric associated with the API request. This code associates each event with the correct metric.

billable_metrics.recurring

boolean

required

Defines if the billable metric is persisted billing period over billing period.

If set to true: the accumulated number of units calculated from the previous billing period is persisted to the next billing period.
If set to false: the accumulated number of units is reset to 0 at the end of the billing period.
If not defined in the request, default value is false.

billable_metrics.created_at

string

required

Creation date of the billable metric.

billable_metrics.aggregation_type

enum<string>

required

Aggregation method used to compute usage for this billable metric.

Available options:

count_agg,

sum_agg,

max_agg,

unique_count_agg,

weighted_sum_agg,

latest_agg

billable_metrics.description

string | null

Internal description of the billable metric.

billable_metrics.rounding_function

enum<string> | null

Refers to the numeric value or mathematical expression that will be rounded based on the calculated number of billing units. Possible values are round, ceil and floor.

Available options:

ceil,

floor,

round

billable_metrics.rounding_precision

integer | null

Specifies the number of decimal places to which the rounding_function will be rounded. It can be a positive or negative value.

billable_metrics.expression

string

Expression used to calculate the event units. The expression is evalutated for each event and the result is then used to calculate the total aggregated units.

billable_metrics.field_name

string | null

Property of the billable metric used for aggregating usage data. This field is not required for count_agg.

billable_metrics.weighted_interval

enum<string> | null

Parameter exclusively utilized in conjunction with the weighted_sum aggregation type. It serves to adjust the aggregation result by assigning weights and proration to the result based on time intervals. When this field is not provided, the default time interval is assumed to be in seconds.

Available options:

seconds

billable_metrics.filters

object[]

meta

object

required

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LAGO_URL="https://api.getlago.com"
API_KEY="__YOUR_API_KEY__"

curl --location --request GET "$LAGO_URL/api/v1/billable_metrics?per_page=2&page=1" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"

{
  "billable_metrics": [
    {
      "lago_id": "1a901a90-1a90-1a90-1a90-1a901a901a90",
      "name": "Storage",
      "code": "storage",
      "description": "GB of storage used in my application",
      "recurring": false,
      "rounding_function": "round",
      "rounding_precision": 2,
      "created_at": "2022-09-14T16:35:31Z",
      "expression": "round((ended_at - started_at) * units)",
      "field_name": "gb",
      "aggregation_type": "sum_agg",
      "weighted_interval": "seconds",
      "filters": [
        {
          "key": "region",
          "values": [
            "us-east-1"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "current_page": 2,
    "next_page": 3,
    "prev_page": 1,
    "total_pages": 4,
    "total_count": 70
  }
}

API Reference

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Response