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

curl --location --request POST "$LAGO_URL/api/v1/billable_metrics" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "billable_metric": {
    "name": "Storage",
    "code": "storage",
    "description": "GB of storage used in my application",
    "aggregation_type": "sum_agg",
    "recurring": false,
    "field_name": "gb",
    "weighted_interval": "seconds",
    "filters": [
      {
        "key": "region",
        "values": ["us-east-1", "us-east-2", "eu-west-1"]
      }
    ]
  }
}'

{
  "billable_metric": {
    "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"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
LAGO_URL="https://api.getlago.com"
API_KEY="__YOUR_API_KEY__"

curl --location --request POST "$LAGO_URL/api/v1/billable_metrics" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "billable_metric": {
    "name": "Storage",
    "code": "storage",
    "description": "GB of storage used in my application",
    "aggregation_type": "sum_agg",
    "recurring": false,
    "field_name": "gb",
    "weighted_interval": "seconds",
    "filters": [
      {
        "key": "region",
        "values": ["us-east-1", "us-east-2", "eu-west-1"]
      }
    ]
  }
}'

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

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

Body

application/json

Billable metric payload

The body is of type object.

Response

Billable metric created

The response is of type object.