As far as I can tell, one cannot use gcloud beta monitoring policies create , and instead has to use gcloud alpha monitoring policies create. It appears that monitoring policies has been in alpha since 2019.
Are there any plans to add monitoring policies to beta any time soon?
Hi nick-youngblut,
Yes, you’re correct, the current documented way to create an alerting policy though gcloud CLI is by using the gcloud alpha monitoring policies create command.
Google Cloud is actively working on improving the gcloud CLI method for creating alerting policies, but a specific release date for the gcloud beta monitoring policies create command has not yet been publicly announced. Additionally, as mentioned in this documentation, the gcloud alpha monitoring policies create command may change without prior notice. To stay updated, you can monitor the official Cloud Monitoring release notes for the latest feature announcements.