Create a billable metric

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.alguna.io/metrics \
  --header 'Alguna-Version: <alguna-version>' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "aggregation": {
    "method": "sum",
    "field": "amount"
  },
  "event_name": "api_call",
  "name": "API Calls",
  "description": "Counts API calls per customer",
  "filter_groups": [
    {
      "filters": [
        {
          "field": "region",
          "operator": "equal",
          "value": "us-east-1"
        }
      ],
      "operator": "and"
    }
  ],
  "tag_ids": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.alguna.io/metrics"

payload = {
    "aggregation": {
        "method": "sum",
        "field": "amount"
    },
    "event_name": "api_call",
    "name": "API Calls",
    "description": "Counts API calls per customer",
    "filter_groups": [
        {
            "filters": [
                {
                    "field": "region",
                    "operator": "equal",
                    "value": "us-east-1"
                }
            ],
            "operator": "and"
        }
    ],
    "tag_ids": ["<string>"]
}
headers = {
    "Alguna-Version": "<alguna-version>",
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Alguna-Version': '<alguna-version>',
    Authorization: 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    aggregation: {method: 'sum', field: 'amount'},
    event_name: 'api_call',
    name: 'API Calls',
    description: 'Counts API calls per customer',
    filter_groups: [
      {
        filters: [{field: 'region', operator: 'equal', value: 'us-east-1'}],
        operator: 'and'
      }
    ],
    tag_ids: ['<string>']
  })
};

fetch('https://api.alguna.io/metrics', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.alguna.io/metrics",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'aggregation' => [
        'method' => 'sum',
        'field' => 'amount'
    ],
    'event_name' => 'api_call',
    'name' => 'API Calls',
    'description' => 'Counts API calls per customer',
    'filter_groups' => [
        [
                'filters' => [
                                [
                                                                'field' => 'region',
                                                                'operator' => 'equal',
                                                                'value' => 'us-east-1'
                                ]
                ],
                'operator' => 'and'
        ]
    ],
    'tag_ids' => [
        '<string>'
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Alguna-Version: <alguna-version>",
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.alguna.io/metrics"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"aggregation\": {\n    \"method\": \"sum\",\n    \"field\": \"amount\"\n  },\n  \"event_name\": \"api_call\",\n  \"name\": \"API Calls\",\n  \"description\": \"Counts API calls per customer\",\n  \"filter_groups\": [\n    {\n      \"filters\": [\n        {\n          \"field\": \"region\",\n          \"operator\": \"equal\",\n          \"value\": \"us-east-1\"\n        }\n      ],\n      \"operator\": \"and\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"tag_ids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Alguna-Version", "<alguna-version>")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.alguna.io/metrics")
  .header("Alguna-Version", "<alguna-version>")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"aggregation\": {\n    \"method\": \"sum\",\n    \"field\": \"amount\"\n  },\n  \"event_name\": \"api_call\",\n  \"name\": \"API Calls\",\n  \"description\": \"Counts API calls per customer\",\n  \"filter_groups\": [\n    {\n      \"filters\": [\n        {\n          \"field\": \"region\",\n          \"operator\": \"equal\",\n          \"value\": \"us-east-1\"\n        }\n      ],\n      \"operator\": \"and\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"tag_ids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.alguna.io/metrics")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Alguna-Version"] = '<alguna-version>'
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"aggregation\": {\n    \"method\": \"sum\",\n    \"field\": \"amount\"\n  },\n  \"event_name\": \"api_call\",\n  \"name\": \"API Calls\",\n  \"description\": \"Counts API calls per customer\",\n  \"filter_groups\": [\n    {\n      \"filters\": [\n        {\n          \"field\": \"region\",\n          \"operator\": \"equal\",\n          \"value\": \"us-east-1\"\n        }\n      ],\n      \"operator\": \"and\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"tag_ids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "aggregation": {
    "field": "amount",
    "method": "sum"
  },
  "created_at": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z",
  "event_name": "api_call",
  "id": "mtr_01H1VECT",
  "name": "API Calls",
  "updated_at": "2026-04-01T12:30:00Z",
  "description": "Counts API calls per customer",
  "filter_groups": [
    {
      "filters": [
        {
          "field": "region",
          "operator": "equal",
          "value": "us-east-1"
        }
      ],
      "operator": "and"
    }
  ],
  "tag_ids": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}

{
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123
}

{
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123
}

{
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123
}

{
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123
}

{
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123
}

{
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123
}