diff --git a/bigquery/samples/utils.py b/bigquery/samples/utils.py
index 0b375cefc034..53d26d0c6471 100644
--- a/bigquery/samples/utils.py
+++ b/bigquery/samples/utils.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def get_service():
 
 
 # [START poll_job]
-def poll_job(service, projectId, jobId, interval=5, num_retries=5):
+def poll_job(service, projectId, jobId, interval=5.0, num_retries=5):
     """checks the status of a job every *interval* seconds"""
 
     import time
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def poll_job(service, projectId, jobId, interval=5, num_retries=5):
     while not job_resource['status']['state'] == 'DONE':
         print('Job is {}, waiting {} seconds...'
               .format(job_resource['status']['state'], interval))
-        time.sleep(interval)
+        time.sleep(float(interval))
         job_resource = job_get.execute(num_retries=num_retries)
 
     return job_resource
diff --git a/monitoring/__init__.py b/monitoring/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/monitoring/samples/__init__.py b/monitoring/samples/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/monitoring/samples/auth.py b/monitoring/samples/auth.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7e4aa6201f64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitoring/samples/auth.py
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Sample command-line program for retrieving Google Cloud Monitoring API data.
+
+Simple command-line program to demonstrate connecting to the Google Cloud
+Monitoring API to retrieve API data, using application default credentials to
+authenticate.
+
+This sample obtains authentication information from its environment via
+application default credentials [1].
+
+If you're not running the sample on Google App Engine or Compute Engine (where
+the environment comes pre-authenticated as a service account), you'll have to
+initialize your environment with credentials the sample can use.
+
+One way to do this is through the cloud console's credentials page [2]. Create
+a new client ID of type 'Service account', and download its JSON key. This will
+be the account the sample authenticates as.
+
+Once you've downloaded the service account's JSON key, you provide it to the
+sample by setting the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable to
+point to the key file:
+
+$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/json-key.json
+
+[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials
+[2] https://console.developers.google.com/project/_/apiui/credential
+"""  # NOQA
+
+# [START all]
+import json
+import sys
+
+from googleapiclient.discovery import build
+
+from oauth2client.client import GoogleCredentials
+
+
+METRIC = 'compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk/read_ops_count'
+YOUNGEST = '2015-01-01T00:00:00Z'
+
+
+def ListTimeseries(project_name, service):
+    """Query the Timeseries.list API method.
+
+    Args:
+      project_name: the name of the project you'd like to monitor.
+      service: the CloudMonitoring service object.
+    """
+
+    timeseries = service.timeseries()
+
+    print 'Timeseries.list raw response:'
+    try:
+        response = timeseries.list(
+            project=project_name, metric=METRIC, youngest=YOUNGEST).execute()
+
+        print json.dumps(response,
+                         sort_keys=True,
+                         indent=4,
+                         separators=(',', ': '))
+    except:
+        print 'Error:'
+        for error in sys.exc_info():
+            print error
+
+
+def main(project_name):
+    # Create and return the CloudMonitoring service object.
+    service = build('cloudmonitoring', 'v2beta2',
+                    credentials=GoogleCredentials.get_application_default())
+
+    ListTimeseries(project_name, service)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+        print "Usage: %s <project-name>" % sys.argv[0]
+        sys.exit(1)
+    main(sys.argv[1])
+# [END all]
diff --git a/monitoring/samples/tests/__init__.py b/monitoring/samples/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/monitoring/samples/tests/test_auth.py b/monitoring/samples/tests/test_auth.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2bc7d3b2eee5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/monitoring/samples/tests/test_auth.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 2015, Google, Inc.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+import re
+import unittest
+
+from monitoring.samples import auth
+
+import tests
+
+
+class TestTimeseriesList(tests.CloudBaseTest):
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        cls.test_project_id = os.environ.get(tests.PROJECT_ID_ENV)
+
+    def test_main(self):
+        with tests.capture_stdout() as stdout:
+            auth.main(self.test_project_id)
+        output = stdout.getvalue().strip()
+        self.assertRegexpMatches(
+            output, re.compile(r'Timeseries.list raw response:\s*'
+                               r'{\s*"kind": "[^"]+",'
+                               r'\s*"oldest": *"[0-9]+', re.S))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
index b706ae802f62..5351a4ab962d 100644
--- a/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -16,8 +16,11 @@
 """
 
 import __builtin__
+import contextlib
 import json
 import os
+import StringIO
+import sys
 import unittest
 
 from google.appengine.datastore import datastore_stub_util
@@ -101,3 +104,16 @@ def setUp(self):
 
     def tearDown(self):
         self.testbed.deactivate()
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def capture_stdout():
+    """Capture stdout."""
+    fake_stdout = StringIO.StringIO()
+    old_stdout = sys.stdout
+
+    try:
+        sys.stdout = fake_stdout
+        yield fake_stdout
+    finally:
+        sys.stdout = old_stdout