Details of the metric data that Kubernetes components export.
Metrics (v1.30)
This page details the metrics that different Kubernetes components export. You can query the metrics endpoint for these
components using an HTTP scrape, and fetch the current metrics data in Prometheus format.
List of Stable Kubernetes Metrics
Stable metrics observe strict API contracts and no labels can be added or removed from stable metrics during their lifetime.
Admission webhook latency histogram in seconds, identified by name and broken out for each operation and API resource and type (validate or admit).
STABLE
Histogram
nameoperationrejectedtype
apiserver_current_inflight_requests
Maximal number of currently used inflight request limit of this apiserver per request kind in last second.
STABLE
Gauge
request_kind
apiserver_longrunning_requests
Gauge of all active long-running apiserver requests broken out by verb, group, version, resource, scope and component. Not all requests are tracked this way.
STABLE
Gauge
componentgroupresourcescopesubresourceverbversion
apiserver_request_duration_seconds
Response latency distribution in seconds for each verb, dry run value, group, version, resource, subresource, scope and component.
Time between when a cronjob is scheduled to be run, and when the corresponding job is created
STABLE
Histogram
job_controller_job_pods_finished_total
The number of finished Pods that are fully tracked
STABLE
Counter
completion_moderesult
job_controller_job_sync_duration_seconds
The time it took to sync a job
STABLE
Histogram
actioncompletion_moderesult
job_controller_job_syncs_total
The number of job syncs
STABLE
Counter
actioncompletion_moderesult
job_controller_jobs_finished_total
The number of finished jobs
STABLE
Counter
completion_modereasonresult
kube_pod_resource_limit
Resources limit for workloads on the cluster, broken down by pod. This shows the resource usage the scheduler and kubelet expect per pod for resources along with the unit for the resource if any.
STABLE
Custom
namespacepodnodeschedulerpriorityresourceunit
kube_pod_resource_request
Resources requested by workloads on the cluster, broken down by pod. This shows the resource usage the scheduler and kubelet expect per pod for resources along with the unit for the resource if any.
STABLE
Custom
namespacepodnodeschedulerpriorityresourceunit
kubernetes_healthcheck
This metric records the result of a single healthcheck.
STABLE
Gauge
nametype
kubernetes_healthchecks_total
This metric records the results of all healthcheck.
STABLE
Counter
namestatustype
node_collector_evictions_total
Number of Node evictions that happened since current instance of NodeController started.
STABLE
Counter
zone
node_cpu_usage_seconds_total
Cumulative cpu time consumed by the node in core-seconds
STABLE
Custom
node_memory_working_set_bytes
Current working set of the node in bytes
STABLE
Custom
pod_cpu_usage_seconds_total
Cumulative cpu time consumed by the pod in core-seconds
STABLE
Custom
podnamespace
pod_memory_working_set_bytes
Current working set of the pod in bytes
STABLE
Custom
podnamespace
resource_scrape_error
1 if there was an error while getting container metrics, 0 otherwise
Latency for running all plugins of a specific extension point.
STABLE
Histogram
extension_pointprofilestatus
scheduler_pending_pods
Number of pending pods, by the queue type. 'active' means number of pods in activeQ; 'backoff' means number of pods in backoffQ; 'unschedulable' means number of pods in unschedulablePods that the scheduler attempted to schedule and failed; 'gated' is the number of unschedulable pods that the scheduler never attempted to schedule because they are gated.
STABLE
Gauge
queue
scheduler_pod_scheduling_attempts
Number of attempts to successfully schedule a pod.
STABLE
Histogram
scheduler_pod_scheduling_duration_seconds
E2e latency for a pod being scheduled which may include multiple scheduling attempts.
STABLE
Histogram
attempts
1.29.0
scheduler_preemption_attempts_total
Total preemption attempts in the cluster till now
STABLE
Counter
scheduler_preemption_victims
Number of selected preemption victims
STABLE
Histogram
scheduler_queue_incoming_pods_total
Number of pods added to scheduling queues by event and queue type.
STABLE
Counter
eventqueue
scheduler_schedule_attempts_total
Number of attempts to schedule pods, by the result. 'unschedulable' means a pod could not be scheduled, while 'error' means an internal scheduler problem.
STABLE
Counter
profileresult
scheduler_scheduling_attempt_duration_seconds
Scheduling attempt latency in seconds (scheduling algorithm + binding)
STABLE
Histogram
profileresult
List of Beta Kubernetes Metrics
Beta metrics observe a looser API contract than its stable counterparts. No labels can be removed from beta metrics during their lifetime, however, labels can be added while the metric is in the beta stage. This offers the assurance that beta metrics will honor existing dashboards and alerts, while allowing for amendments in the future.
apiserver_flowcontrol_current_executing_requests
Number of requests in initial (for a WATCH) or any (for a non-WATCH) execution stage in the API Priority and Fairness subsystem
BETA
Gauge
flow_schemapriority_level
apiserver_flowcontrol_current_executing_seats
Concurrency (number of seats) occupied by the currently executing (initial stage for a WATCH, any stage otherwise) requests in the API Priority and Fairness subsystem
BETA
Gauge
flow_schemapriority_level
apiserver_flowcontrol_current_inqueue_requests
Number of requests currently pending in queues of the API Priority and Fairness subsystem
BETA
Gauge
flow_schemapriority_level
apiserver_flowcontrol_dispatched_requests_total
Number of requests executed by API Priority and Fairness subsystem
BETA
Counter
flow_schemapriority_level
apiserver_flowcontrol_nominal_limit_seats
Nominal number of execution seats configured for each priority level
BETA
Gauge
priority_level
apiserver_flowcontrol_rejected_requests_total
Number of requests rejected by API Priority and Fairness subsystem
Length of time a request spent waiting in its queue
BETA
Histogram
executeflow_schemapriority_level
disabled_metrics_total
The count of disabled metrics.
BETA
Counter
hidden_metrics_total
The count of hidden metrics.
BETA
Counter
kubernetes_feature_enabled
This metric records the data about the stage and enablement of a k8s feature.
BETA
Gauge
namestage
registered_metrics_total
The count of registered metrics broken by stability level and deprecation version.
BETA
Counter
deprecated_versionstability_level
scheduler_pod_scheduling_sli_duration_seconds
E2e latency for a pod being scheduled, from the time the pod enters the scheduling queue an d might involve multiple scheduling attempts.
BETA
Histogram
attempts
List of Alpha Kubernetes Metrics
Alpha metrics do not have any API guarantees. These metrics must be used at your own risk, subsequent versions of Kubernetes may remove these metrics altogether, or mutate the API in such a way that breaks existing dashboards and alerts.
aggregator_discovery_aggregation_count_total
Counter of number of times discovery was aggregated
ALPHA
Counter
aggregator_openapi_v2_regeneration_count
Counter of OpenAPI v2 spec regeneration count broken down by causing APIService name and reason.
ALPHA
Counter
apiservicereason
aggregator_openapi_v2_regeneration_duration
Gauge of OpenAPI v2 spec regeneration duration in seconds.
ALPHA
Gauge
reason
aggregator_unavailable_apiservice
Gauge of APIServices which are marked as unavailable broken down by APIService name.
ALPHA
Custom
name
aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_total
Counter of APIServices which are marked as unavailable broken down by APIService name and reason.
Admission match condition evaluation errors count, identified by name of resource containing the match condition and broken out for each kind containing matchConditions (webhook or policy), operation and admission type (validate or admit).
Admission match condition evaluation time in seconds, identified by name and broken out for each kind containing matchConditions (webhook or policy), operation and type (validate or admit).
Admission match condition evaluation exclusions count, identified by name of resource containing the match condition and broken out for each kind containing matchConditions (webhook or policy), operation and admission type (validate or admit).
Admission sub-step latency summary in seconds, broken out for each operation and API resource and step type (validate or admit).
ALPHA
Summary
operationrejectedtype
apiserver_admission_webhook_fail_open_count
Admission webhook fail open count, identified by name and broken out for each admission type (validating or mutating).
ALPHA
Counter
nametype
apiserver_admission_webhook_rejection_count
Admission webhook rejection count, identified by name and broken out for each admission type (validating or admit) and operation. Additional labels specify an error type (calling_webhook_error or apiserver_internal_error if an error occurred; no_error otherwise) and optionally a non-zero rejection code if the webhook rejects the request with an HTTP status code (honored by the apiserver when the code is greater or equal to 400). Codes greater than 600 are truncated to 600, to keep the metrics cardinality bounded.
ALPHA
Counter
error_typenameoperationrejection_codetype
apiserver_admission_webhook_request_total
Admission webhook request total, identified by name and broken out for each admission type (validating or mutating) and operation. Additional labels specify whether the request was rejected or not and an HTTP status code. Codes greater than 600 are truncated to 600, to keep the metrics cardinality bounded.
ALPHA
Counter
codenameoperationrejectedtype
apiserver_audit_error_total
Counter of audit events that failed to be audited properly. Plugin identifies the plugin affected by the error.
ALPHA
Counter
plugin
apiserver_audit_event_total
Counter of audit events generated and sent to the audit backend.
ALPHA
Counter
apiserver_audit_level_total
Counter of policy levels for audit events (1 per request).
ALPHA
Counter
level
apiserver_audit_requests_rejected_total
Counter of apiserver requests rejected due to an error in audit logging backend.
Latency of jwt authentication operations in seconds. This is the time spent authenticating a token for cache miss only (i.e. when the token is not found in the cache).
Request latency in seconds. Broken down by status code.
ALPHA
Histogram
code
apiserver_delegated_authz_request_total
Number of HTTP requests partitioned by status code.
ALPHA
Counter
code
apiserver_egress_dialer_dial_duration_seconds
Dial latency histogram in seconds, labeled by the protocol (http-connect or grpc), transport (tcp or uds)
ALPHA
Histogram
protocoltransport
apiserver_egress_dialer_dial_failure_count
Dial failure count, labeled by the protocol (http-connect or grpc), transport (tcp or uds), and stage (connect or proxy). The stage indicates at which stage the dial failed
ALPHA
Counter
protocolstagetransport
apiserver_egress_dialer_dial_start_total
Dial starts, labeled by the protocol (http-connect or grpc) and transport (tcp or uds).
Number of records in data encryption key (DEK) source cache. On a restart, this value is an approximation of the number of decrypt RPC calls the server will make to the KMS plugin.
Observations, at the end of every nanosecond, of number of requests (as a fraction of the relevant limit) waiting or in any stage of execution (but only initial stage for WATCHes)
Observations, at the end of every nanosecond, of the number of requests (as a fraction of the relevant limit) waiting or in regular stage of execution
ALPHA
TimingRatioHistogram
phaserequest_kind
apiserver_flowcontrol_request_concurrency_in_use
Concurrency (number of seats) occupied by the currently executing (initial stage for a WATCH, any stage otherwise) requests in the API Priority and Fairness subsystem
ALPHA
Gauge
flow_schemapriority_level
1.31.0
apiserver_flowcontrol_request_concurrency_limit
Nominal number of execution seats configured for each priority level
Counts the number of requests to servers with insecure SHA1 signatures in their serving certificate OR the number of connection failures due to the insecure SHA1 signatures (either/or, based on the runtime environment)
ALPHA
Counter
apiserver_kube_aggregator_x509_missing_san_total
Counts the number of requests to servers missing SAN extension in their serving certificate OR the number of connection failures due to the lack of x509 certificate SAN extension missing (either/or, based on the runtime environment)
ALPHA
Counter
apiserver_nodeport_repair_port_errors_total
Number of errors detected on ports by the repair loop broken down by type of error: leak, repair, full, outOfRange, duplicate, unknown
ALPHA
Counter
type
apiserver_nodeport_repair_reconcile_errors_total
Number of reconciliation failures on the nodeport repair reconcile loop
ALPHA
Counter
apiserver_request_aborts_total
Number of requests which apiserver aborted possibly due to a timeout, for each group, version, verb, resource, subresource and scope
ALPHA
Counter
groupresourcescopesubresourceverbversion
apiserver_request_body_size_bytes
Apiserver request body size in bytes broken out by resource and verb.
ALPHA
Histogram
resourceverb
apiserver_request_filter_duration_seconds
Request filter latency distribution in seconds, for each filter type
ALPHA
Histogram
filter
apiserver_request_post_timeout_total
Tracks the activity of the request handlers after the associated requests have been timed out by the apiserver
ALPHA
Counter
sourcestatus
apiserver_request_sli_duration_seconds
Response latency distribution (not counting webhook duration and priority & fairness queue wait times) in seconds for each verb, group, version, resource, subresource, scope and component.
ALPHA
Histogram
componentgroupresourcescopesubresourceverbversion
apiserver_request_slo_duration_seconds
Response latency distribution (not counting webhook duration and priority & fairness queue wait times) in seconds for each verb, group, version, resource, subresource, scope and component.
ALPHA
Histogram
componentgroupresourcescopesubresourceverbversion
1.27.0
apiserver_request_terminations_total
Number of requests which apiserver terminated in self-defense.
Total number of cache misses while accessing key decryption key(KEK).
ALPHA
Counter
apiserver_storage_events_received_total
Number of etcd events received split by kind.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_storage_list_evaluated_objects_total
Number of objects tested in the course of serving a LIST request from storage
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_storage_list_fetched_objects_total
Number of objects read from storage in the course of serving a LIST request
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_storage_list_returned_objects_total
Number of objects returned for a LIST request from storage
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_storage_list_total
Number of LIST requests served from storage
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_storage_transformation_duration_seconds
Latencies in seconds of value transformation operations.
ALPHA
Histogram
transformation_typetransformer_prefix
apiserver_storage_transformation_operations_total
Total number of transformations. Successful transformation will have a status 'OK' and a varied status string when the transformation fails. This status and transformation_type fields may be used for alerting on encryption/decryption failure using transformation_type from_storage for decryption and to_storage for encryption
ALPHA
Counter
statustransformation_typetransformer_prefix
apiserver_stream_translator_requests_total
Total number of requests that were handled by the StreamTranslatorProxy, which processes streaming RemoteCommand/V5
ALPHA
Counter
code
apiserver_terminated_watchers_total
Counter of watchers closed due to unresponsiveness broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_tls_handshake_errors_total
Number of requests dropped with 'TLS handshake error from' error
Validation admission latency for individual validation expressions in seconds, labeled by policy and further including binding, state and enforcement action taken.
ALPHA
Histogram
enforcement_actionpolicypolicy_bindingstate
apiserver_validating_admission_policy_check_total
Validation admission policy check total, labeled by policy and further identified by binding, enforcement action taken, and state.
Validation admission policy count total, labeled by state and enforcement action.
ALPHA
Counter
enforcement_actionstate
apiserver_watch_cache_events_dispatched_total
Counter of events dispatched in watch cache broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_watch_cache_events_received_total
Counter of events received in watch cache broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_watch_cache_initializations_total
Counter of watch cache initializations broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
apiserver_watch_cache_read_wait_seconds
Histogram of time spent waiting for a watch cache to become fresh.
ALPHA
Histogram
resource
apiserver_watch_events_sizes
Watch event size distribution in bytes
ALPHA
Histogram
groupkindversion
apiserver_watch_events_total
Number of events sent in watch clients
ALPHA
Counter
groupkindversion
apiserver_watch_list_duration_seconds
Response latency distribution in seconds for watch list requests broken by group, version, resource and scope.
ALPHA
Histogram
groupresourcescopeversion
apiserver_webhooks_x509_insecure_sha1_total
Counts the number of requests to servers with insecure SHA1 signatures in their serving certificate OR the number of connection failures due to the insecure SHA1 signatures (either/or, based on the runtime environment)
ALPHA
Counter
apiserver_webhooks_x509_missing_san_total
Counts the number of requests to servers missing SAN extension in their serving certificate OR the number of connection failures due to the lack of x509 certificate SAN extension missing (either/or, based on the runtime environment)
The number of volumes that failed force cleanup after their reconstruction failed during kubelet startup.
ALPHA
Counter
force_cleaned_failed_volume_operations_total
The number of volumes that were force cleaned after their reconstruction failed during kubelet startup. This includes both successful and failed cleanups.
The time(seconds) that the HPA controller takes to calculate one metric. The label 'action' should be either 'scale_down', 'scale_up', or 'none'. The label 'error' should be either 'spec', 'internal', or 'none'. The label 'metric_type' corresponds to HPA.spec.metrics[*].type
Number of metric computations. The label 'action' should be either 'scale_down', 'scale_up', or 'none'. Also, the label 'error' should be either 'spec', 'internal', or 'none'. The label 'metric_type' corresponds to HPA.spec.metrics[*].type
The time(seconds) that the HPA controller takes to reconcile once. The label 'action' should be either 'scale_down', 'scale_up', or 'none'. Also, the label 'error' should be either 'spec', 'internal', or 'none'. Note that if both spec and internal errors happen during a reconciliation, the first one to occur is reported in `error` label.
Number of reconciliations of HPA controller. The label 'action' should be either 'scale_down', 'scale_up', or 'none'. Also, the label 'error' should be either 'spec', 'internal', or 'none'. Note that if both spec and internal errors happen during a reconciliation, the first one to occur is reported in `error` label.
ALPHA
Counter
actionerror
job_controller_job_finished_indexes_total
`The number of finished indexes. Possible values for the, status label are: "succeeded", "failed". Possible values for the, backoffLimit label are: "perIndex" and "global"`
ALPHA
Counter
backoffLimitstatus
job_controller_job_pods_creation_total
`The number of Pods created by the Job controller labelled with a reason for the Pod creation., This metric also distinguishes between Pods created using different PodReplacementPolicy settings., Possible values of the "reason" label are:, "new", "recreate_terminating_or_failed", "recreate_failed"., Possible values of the "status" label are:, "succeeded", "failed".`
ALPHA
Counter
reasonstatus
job_controller_jobs_by_external_controller_total
The number of Jobs managed by an external controller
`The number of failed Pods handled by failure policy with, respect to the failure policy action applied based on the matched, rule. Possible values of the action label correspond to the, possible values for the failure policy rule action, which are:, "FailJob", "Ignore" and "Count".`
`The number of terminated pods (phase=Failed|Succeeded), that have the finalizer batch.kubernetes.io/job-tracking, The event label can be "add" or "delete".`
ALPHA
Counter
event
kube_apiserver_clusterip_allocator_allocated_ips
Gauge measuring the number of allocated IPs for Services
Total number of requests for pods/logs sliced by usage type: enforce_tls, skip_tls_allowed, skip_tls_denied
ALPHA
Counter
usage
1.27.0
kubelet_active_pods
The number of pods the kubelet considers active and which are being considered when admitting new pods. static is true if the pod is not from the apiserver.
Gauge of the TTL (time-to-live) of the Kubelet's client certificate. The value is in seconds until certificate expiry (negative if already expired). If client certificate is invalid or unused, the value will be +INF.
Histogram of the number of seconds the previous certificate lived before being rotated.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_certificate_manager_server_ttl_seconds
Gauge of the shortest TTL (time-to-live) of the Kubelet's serving certificate. The value is in seconds until certificate expiry (negative if already expired). If serving certificate is invalid or unused, the value will be +INF.
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_cgroup_manager_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds for cgroup manager operations. Broken down by method.
ALPHA
Histogram
operation_type
kubelet_container_log_filesystem_used_bytes
Bytes used by the container's logs on the filesystem.
ALPHA
Custom
uidnamespacepodcontainer
kubelet_containers_per_pod_count
The number of containers per pod.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_cpu_manager_pinning_errors_total
The number of cpu core allocations which required pinning failed.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_cpu_manager_pinning_requests_total
The number of cpu core allocations which required pinning.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_credential_provider_plugin_duration
Duration of execution in seconds for credential provider plugin
ALPHA
Histogram
plugin_name
kubelet_credential_provider_plugin_errors
Number of errors from credential provider plugin
ALPHA
Counter
plugin_name
kubelet_desired_pods
The number of pods the kubelet is being instructed to run. static is true if the pod is not from the apiserver.
ALPHA
Gauge
static
kubelet_device_plugin_alloc_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to serve a device plugin Allocation request. Broken down by resource name.
ALPHA
Histogram
resource_name
kubelet_device_plugin_registration_total
Cumulative number of device plugin registrations. Broken down by resource name.
ALPHA
Counter
resource_name
kubelet_evented_pleg_connection_error_count
The number of errors encountered during the establishment of streaming connection with the CRI runtime.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_evented_pleg_connection_latency_seconds
The latency of streaming connection with the CRI runtime, measured in seconds.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_evented_pleg_connection_success_count
The number of times a streaming client was obtained to receive CRI Events.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_eviction_stats_age_seconds
Time between when stats are collected, and when pod is evicted based on those stats by eviction signal
ALPHA
Histogram
eviction_signal
kubelet_evictions
Cumulative number of pod evictions by eviction signal
ALPHA
Counter
eviction_signal
kubelet_graceful_shutdown_end_time_seconds
Last graceful shutdown start time since unix epoch in seconds
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_graceful_shutdown_start_time_seconds
Last graceful shutdown start time since unix epoch in seconds
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_http_inflight_requests
Number of the inflight http requests
ALPHA
Gauge
long_runningmethodpathserver_type
kubelet_http_requests_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to serve http requests
ALPHA
Histogram
long_runningmethodpathserver_type
kubelet_http_requests_total
Number of the http requests received since the server started
ALPHA
Counter
long_runningmethodpathserver_type
kubelet_image_garbage_collected_total
Total number of images garbage collected by the kubelet, whether through disk usage or image age.
ALPHA
Counter
reason
kubelet_image_pull_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to pull an image.
ALPHA
Histogram
image_size_in_bytes
kubelet_lifecycle_handler_http_fallbacks_total
The number of times lifecycle handlers successfully fell back to http from https.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_managed_ephemeral_containers
Current number of ephemeral containers in pods managed by this kubelet.
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_memory_manager_pinning_errors_total
The number of memory pages allocations which required pinning that failed.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_memory_manager_pinning_requests_total
The number of memory pages allocations which required pinning.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_mirror_pods
The number of mirror pods the kubelet will try to create (one per admitted static pod)
Duration in seconds of node startup during registration.
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_orphan_pod_cleaned_volumes
The total number of orphaned Pods whose volumes were cleaned in the last periodic sweep.
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_orphan_pod_cleaned_volumes_errors
The number of orphaned Pods whose volumes failed to be cleaned in the last periodic sweep.
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_orphaned_runtime_pods_total
Number of pods that have been detected in the container runtime without being already known to the pod worker. This typically indicates the kubelet was restarted while a pod was force deleted in the API or in the local configuration, which is unusual.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_pleg_discard_events
The number of discard events in PLEG.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_pleg_last_seen_seconds
Timestamp in seconds when PLEG was last seen active.
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_pleg_relist_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds for relisting pods in PLEG.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_pleg_relist_interval_seconds
Interval in seconds between relisting in PLEG.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_pod_resources_endpoint_errors_get
Number of requests to the PodResource Get endpoint which returned error. Broken down by server api version.
Number of requests to the PodResource GetAllocatableResources endpoint. Broken down by server api version.
ALPHA
Counter
server_api_version
kubelet_pod_resources_endpoint_requests_list
Number of requests to the PodResource List endpoint. Broken down by server api version.
ALPHA
Counter
server_api_version
kubelet_pod_resources_endpoint_requests_total
Cumulative number of requests to the PodResource endpoint. Broken down by server api version.
ALPHA
Counter
server_api_version
kubelet_pod_start_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds from kubelet seeing a pod for the first time to the pod starting to run
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_pod_start_sli_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to start a pod, excluding time to pull images and run init containers, measured from pod creation timestamp to when all its containers are reported as started and observed via watch
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_pod_start_total_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to start a pod since creation, including time to pull images and run init containers, measured from pod creation timestamp to when all its containers are reported as started and observed via watch
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_pod_status_sync_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to sync a pod status update. Measures time from detection of a change to pod status until the API is successfully updated for that pod, even if multiple intevening changes to pod status occur.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_pod_worker_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to sync a single pod. Broken down by operation type: create, update, or sync
ALPHA
Histogram
operation_type
kubelet_pod_worker_start_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds from kubelet seeing a pod to starting a worker.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_preemptions
Cumulative number of pod preemptions by preemption resource
ALPHA
Counter
preemption_signal
kubelet_restarted_pods_total
Number of pods that have been restarted because they were deleted and recreated with the same UID while the kubelet was watching them (common for static pods, extremely uncommon for API pods)
ALPHA
Counter
static
kubelet_run_podsandbox_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds of the run_podsandbox operations. Broken down by RuntimeClass.Handler.
ALPHA
Histogram
runtime_handler
kubelet_run_podsandbox_errors_total
Cumulative number of the run_podsandbox operation errors by RuntimeClass.Handler.
ALPHA
Counter
runtime_handler
kubelet_running_containers
Number of containers currently running
ALPHA
Gauge
container_state
kubelet_running_pods
Number of pods that have a running pod sandbox
ALPHA
Gauge
kubelet_runtime_operations_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds of runtime operations. Broken down by operation type.
ALPHA
Histogram
operation_type
kubelet_runtime_operations_errors_total
Cumulative number of runtime operation errors by operation type.
ALPHA
Counter
operation_type
kubelet_runtime_operations_total
Cumulative number of runtime operations by operation type.
ALPHA
Counter
operation_type
kubelet_server_expiration_renew_errors
Counter of certificate renewal errors.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_sleep_action_terminated_early_total
The number of times lifecycle sleep handler got terminated before it finishes
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_started_containers_errors_total
Cumulative number of errors when starting containers
Cumulative number of errors when starting hostprocess containers. This metric will only be collected on Windows.
ALPHA
Counter
codecontainer_type
kubelet_started_host_process_containers_total
Cumulative number of hostprocess containers started. This metric will only be collected on Windows.
ALPHA
Counter
container_type
kubelet_started_pods_errors_total
Cumulative number of errors when starting pods
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_started_pods_total
Cumulative number of pods started
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_topology_manager_admission_duration_ms
Duration in milliseconds to serve a pod admission request.
ALPHA
Histogram
kubelet_topology_manager_admission_errors_total
The number of admission request failures where resources could not be aligned.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_topology_manager_admission_requests_total
The number of admission requests where resources have to be aligned.
ALPHA
Counter
kubelet_volume_metric_collection_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds to calculate volume stats
ALPHA
Histogram
metric_source
kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes
Number of available bytes in the volume
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes
Capacity in bytes of the volume
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_volume_stats_health_status_abnormal
Abnormal volume health status. The count is either 1 or 0. 1 indicates the volume is unhealthy, 0 indicates volume is healthy
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_volume_stats_inodes
Maximum number of inodes in the volume
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_free
Number of free inodes in the volume
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_used
Number of used inodes in the volume
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_volume_stats_used_bytes
Number of used bytes in the volume
ALPHA
Custom
namespacepersistentvolumeclaim
kubelet_working_pods
Number of pods the kubelet is actually running, broken down by lifecycle phase, whether the pod is desired, orphaned, or runtime only (also orphaned), and whether the pod is static. An orphaned pod has been removed from local configuration or force deleted in the API and consumes resources that are not otherwise visible.
ALPHA
Gauge
configlifecyclestatic
kubeproxy_network_programming_duration_seconds
In Cluster Network Programming Latency in seconds
ALPHA
Histogram
kubeproxy_proxy_healthz_total
Cumulative proxy healthz HTTP status
ALPHA
Counter
code
kubeproxy_proxy_livez_total
Cumulative proxy livez HTTP status
ALPHA
Counter
code
kubeproxy_sync_full_proxy_rules_duration_seconds
SyncProxyRules latency in seconds for full resyncs
A metric with a constant '1' value labeled by major, minor, git version, git commit, git tree state, build date, Go version, and compiler from which Kubernetes was built, and platform on which it is running.
Gauge of if the reporting system is master of the relevant lease, 0 indicates backup, 1 indicates master. 'name' is the string used to identify the lease. Please make sure to group by name.
ALPHA
Gauge
name
leader_election_slowpath_total
Total number of slow path exercised in renewing leader leases. 'name' is the string used to identify the lease. Please make sure to group by name.
ALPHA
Counter
name
node_authorizer_graph_actions_duration_seconds
Histogram of duration of graph actions in node authorizer.
ALPHA
Histogram
operation
node_collector_unhealthy_nodes_in_zone
Gauge measuring number of not Ready Nodes per zones.
Number of exempt requests, not counting ignored or out of scope requests.
ALPHA
Counter
request_operationresourcesubresource
pod_swap_usage_bytes
Current amount of the pod swap usage in bytes. Reported only on non-windows systems
ALPHA
Custom
podnamespace
prober_probe_duration_seconds
Duration in seconds for a probe response.
ALPHA
Histogram
containernamespacepodprobe_type
prober_probe_total
Cumulative number of a liveness, readiness or startup probe for a container by result.
ALPHA
Counter
containernamespacepodpod_uidprobe_typeresult
pv_collector_bound_pv_count
Gauge measuring number of persistent volume currently bound
ALPHA
Custom
storage_class
pv_collector_bound_pvc_count
Gauge measuring number of persistent volume claim currently bound
ALPHA
Custom
namespace
pv_collector_total_pv_count
Gauge measuring total number of persistent volumes
ALPHA
Custom
plugin_namevolume_mode
pv_collector_unbound_pv_count
Gauge measuring number of persistent volume currently unbound
ALPHA
Custom
storage_class
pv_collector_unbound_pvc_count
Gauge measuring number of persistent volume claim currently unbound
ALPHA
Custom
namespace
reconstruct_volume_operations_errors_total
The number of volumes that failed reconstruction from the operating system during kubelet startup.
ALPHA
Counter
reconstruct_volume_operations_total
The number of volumes that were attempted to be reconstructed from the operating system during kubelet startup. This includes both successful and failed reconstruction.
ALPHA
Counter
replicaset_controller_sorting_deletion_age_ratio
The ratio of chosen deleted pod's ages to the current youngest pod's age (at the time). Should be <2. The intent of this metric is to measure the rough efficacy of the LogarithmicScaleDown feature gate's effect on the sorting (and deletion) of pods when a replicaset scales down. This only considers Ready pods when calculating and reporting.
ALPHA
Histogram
resourceclaim_controller_create_attempts_total
Number of ResourceClaims creation requests
ALPHA
Counter
resourceclaim_controller_create_failures_total
Number of ResourceClaims creation request failures
ALPHA
Counter
rest_client_dns_resolution_duration_seconds
DNS resolver latency in seconds. Broken down by host.
ALPHA
Histogram
host
rest_client_exec_plugin_call_total
Number of calls to an exec plugin, partitioned by the type of event encountered (no_error, plugin_execution_error, plugin_not_found_error, client_internal_error) and an optional exit code. The exit code will be set to 0 if and only if the plugin call was successful.
ALPHA
Counter
call_statuscode
rest_client_exec_plugin_certificate_rotation_age
Histogram of the number of seconds the last auth exec plugin client certificate lived before being rotated. If auth exec plugin client certificates are unused, histogram will contain no data.
ALPHA
Histogram
rest_client_exec_plugin_ttl_seconds
Gauge of the shortest TTL (time-to-live) of the client certificate(s) managed by the auth exec plugin. The value is in seconds until certificate expiry (negative if already expired). If auth exec plugins are unused or manage no TLS certificates, the value will be +INF.
ALPHA
Gauge
rest_client_rate_limiter_duration_seconds
Client side rate limiter latency in seconds. Broken down by verb, and host.
ALPHA
Histogram
hostverb
rest_client_request_duration_seconds
Request latency in seconds. Broken down by verb, and host.
ALPHA
Histogram
hostverb
rest_client_request_retries_total
Number of request retries, partitioned by status code, verb, and host.
ALPHA
Counter
codehostverb
rest_client_request_size_bytes
Request size in bytes. Broken down by verb and host.
ALPHA
Histogram
hostverb
rest_client_requests_total
Number of HTTP requests, partitioned by status code, method, and host.
ALPHA
Counter
codehostmethod
rest_client_response_size_bytes
Response size in bytes. Broken down by verb and host.
ALPHA
Histogram
hostverb
rest_client_transport_cache_entries
Number of transport entries in the internal cache.
ALPHA
Gauge
rest_client_transport_create_calls_total
Number of calls to get a new transport, partitioned by the result of the operation hit: obtained from the cache, miss: created and added to the cache, uncacheable: created and not cached
ALPHA
Counter
result
retroactive_storageclass_errors_total
Total number of failed retroactive StorageClass assignments to persistent volume claim
ALPHA
Counter
retroactive_storageclass_total
Total number of retroactive StorageClass assignments to persistent volume claim
ALPHA
Counter
root_ca_cert_publisher_sync_duration_seconds
Number of namespace syncs happened in root ca cert publisher.
ALPHA
Histogram
code
root_ca_cert_publisher_sync_total
Number of namespace syncs happened in root ca cert publisher.
ALPHA
Counter
code
running_managed_controllers
Indicates where instances of a controller are currently running
ALPHA
Gauge
managername
scheduler_goroutines
Number of running goroutines split by the work they do such as binding.
ALPHA
Gauge
operation
scheduler_permit_wait_duration_seconds
Duration of waiting on permit.
ALPHA
Histogram
result
scheduler_plugin_evaluation_total
Number of attempts to schedule pods by each plugin and the extension point (available only in PreFilter, Filter, PreScore, and Score).
ALPHA
Counter
extension_pointpluginprofile
scheduler_plugin_execution_duration_seconds
Duration for running a plugin at a specific extension point.
ALPHA
Histogram
extension_pointpluginstatus
scheduler_scheduler_cache_size
Number of nodes, pods, and assumed (bound) pods in the scheduler cache.
ALPHA
Gauge
type
scheduler_scheduling_algorithm_duration_seconds
Scheduling algorithm latency in seconds
ALPHA
Histogram
scheduler_unschedulable_pods
The number of unschedulable pods broken down by plugin name. A pod will increment the gauge for all plugins that caused it to not schedule and so this metric have meaning only when broken down by plugin.
ALPHA
Gauge
pluginprofile
scheduler_volume_binder_cache_requests_total
Total number for request volume binding cache
ALPHA
Counter
operation
scheduler_volume_scheduling_stage_error_total
Volume scheduling stage error count
ALPHA
Counter
operation
scrape_error
1 if there was an error while getting container metrics, 0 otherwise
ALPHA
Custom
1.29.0
service_controller_loadbalancer_sync_total
A metric counting the amount of times any load balancer has been configured, as an effect of service/node changes on the cluster
ALPHA
Counter
service_controller_nodesync_error_total
A metric counting the amount of times any load balancer has been configured and errored, as an effect of node changes on the cluster
ALPHA
Counter
service_controller_nodesync_latency_seconds
A metric measuring the latency for nodesync which updates loadbalancer hosts on cluster node updates.
The time it took to delete the job since it became eligible for deletion
ALPHA
Histogram
volume_manager_selinux_container_errors_total
Number of errors when kubelet cannot compute SELinux context for a container. Kubelet can't start such a Pod then and it will retry, therefore value of this metric may not represent the actual nr. of containers.
ALPHA
Gauge
access_mode
volume_manager_selinux_container_warnings_total
Number of errors when kubelet cannot compute SELinux context for a container that are ignored. They will become real errors when SELinuxMountReadWriteOncePod feature is expanded to all volume access modes.
Number of errors when a Pod defines different SELinux contexts for its containers that use the same volume. Kubelet can't start such a Pod then and it will retry, therefore value of this metric may not represent the actual nr. of Pods.
Number of errors when a Pod defines different SELinux contexts for its containers that use the same volume. They are not errors yet, but they will become real errors when SELinuxMountReadWriteOncePod feature is expanded to all volume access modes.
Number of errors when a Pod uses a volume that is already mounted with a different SELinux context than the Pod needs. Kubelet can't start such a Pod then and it will retry, therefore value of this metric may not represent the actual nr. of Pods.
Number of errors when a Pod uses a volume that is already mounted with a different SELinux context than the Pod needs. They are not errors yet, but they will become real errors when SELinuxMountReadWriteOncePod feature is expanded to all volume access modes.
ALPHA
Gauge
access_modevolume_plugin
volume_manager_selinux_volumes_admitted_total
Number of volumes whose SELinux context was fine and will be mounted with mount -o context option.
ALPHA
Gauge
access_modevolume_plugin
volume_manager_total_volumes
Number of volumes in Volume Manager
ALPHA
Custom
plugin_namestate
volume_operation_total_errors
Total volume operation errors
ALPHA
Counter
operation_nameplugin_name
volume_operation_total_seconds
Storage operation end to end duration in seconds
ALPHA
Histogram
operation_nameplugin_name
watch_cache_capacity
Total capacity of watch cache broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Gauge
resource
watch_cache_capacity_decrease_total
Total number of watch cache capacity decrease events broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
watch_cache_capacity_increase_total
Total number of watch cache capacity increase events broken by resource type.
ALPHA
Counter
resource
workqueue_adds_total
Total number of adds handled by workqueue
ALPHA
Counter
name
workqueue_depth
Current depth of workqueue
ALPHA
Gauge
name
workqueue_longest_running_processor_seconds
How many seconds has the longest running processor for workqueue been running.
ALPHA
Gauge
name
workqueue_queue_duration_seconds
How long in seconds an item stays in workqueue before being requested.
ALPHA
Histogram
name
workqueue_retries_total
Total number of retries handled by workqueue
ALPHA
Counter
name
workqueue_unfinished_work_seconds
How many seconds of work has done that is in progress and hasn't been observed by work_duration. Large values indicate stuck threads. One can deduce the number of stuck threads by observing the rate at which this increases.
ALPHA
Gauge
name
workqueue_work_duration_seconds
How long in seconds processing an item from workqueue takes.
ALPHA
Histogram
name
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