External metrics list

This page lists some of the metric types available from open-source projects and other external sources.

• For a general explanation of the entries in the tables, including information about values like DELTA and GAUGE, see Metric types.

  Note: To chart or monitor metric types with values of type STRING, you must use Monitoring Query Language (MQL), and you must convert the value into a numeric value. For information about MQL string-conversion methods, see String.

• For information about the units used in the metric lists, see the unit field in the MetricDescriptor reference.

• For information about statements of the form “Sampled every x seconds” and “After sampling, data is not visible for up to y seconds”, see Additional information: metadata.

• For a set of complete, current lists of supported metric types, see Metrics list.

• For pricing information, see Monitoring pricing.

external.googleapis.com

Metrics sent to Google Cloud projects with a metric type beginning external.googleapis.com are known as external metrics. The metrics are typically exported by open-source projects and third-party providers. There is presently a limit of 25,000 external metric descriptors per Google Cloud project.

Cloud Monitoring treats external metrics the same as custom metrics, with one exception. For external metrics, a resource_type of global is invalid and results in the metric data being discarded.

External metric descriptors that are created but then not used for at least 24 months are subject to deletion.

Note: Until an external metric is used in a project, there is no metric descriptor for it. This is also true of custom metrics. Therefore, this page cannot list information about all the possible external metric types. If you use external metrics in your project, you can look at their metric descriptors using the metricDescriptors.list or metricDescriptors.get Monitoring API methods.

user

external.googleapis.com/user/ is a valid domain for user-defined metrics. It is functionally identical to custom.googleapis.com, although it has some backend optimizations that make queries perform better at scale. If you have many projects with identical metrics in every project, then you should use the external.googleapis.com/user/ prefix instead of custom.googleapis.com for performance reasons.

prometheus

Metrics whose names begin external.googleapis.com/prometheus/ come from Prometheus, an open-source monitoring tool often used with Kubernetes. When you configure Prometheus with Cloud Operations for GKE, metrics exported by Prometheus are converted to Cloud Monitoring metric types with simple metric descriptors, such as the following:

{
  "name": "projects/my-gcp-project/metricDescriptors/external.googleapis.com/prometheus/apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_seconds",
  "metricKind": "CUMULATIVE",
  "valueType": "DISTRIBUTION",
  "description": "Auto-created custom metric.",
  "type": "external.googleapis.com/prometheus/apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_seconds"
}

Other metrics

Metrics from other domains.

The following list was last generated at 2022-09-23 17:22:49 UTC. For more information about this process, see About the lists.

cloudonefs

Metrics from Dell Cloud PowerScale for Google Cloud. Launch stages of these metrics: GA

The "metric type" strings in this table must be prefixed with cloudonefs.isiloncloud.com/. That prefix has been omitted from the entries in the table.

Metric type ^Launch stage Display name
Kind, Type, Unit Monitored resources	Description Labels
cluster/operation_count ^GA I/O operations
DELTA, INT64, count dell_emc_cloud_onefs_cluster	Count of the read/write operations performed on the cluster. Sampled every 60 seconds. type: Type of operation.
cluster/received_bytes_count ^GA Ingress network traffic
DELTA, INT64, By dell_emc_cloud_onefs_cluster	Total ingress traffic associated to the cluster in bytes. Sampled every 60 seconds.
cluster/sent_bytes_count ^GA Egress network traffic
DELTA, INT64, By dell_emc_cloud_onefs_cluster	Total egress traffic associated to the cluster in bytes. Sampled every 60 seconds.
cluster/total_bytes ^GA Storage capacity allocated
GAUGE, INT64, By dell_emc_cloud_onefs_cluster	Total capacity allocated to the cluster, in bytes. Sampled every 60 seconds.
cluster/used_bytes ^GA Storage usage
GAUGE, INT64, By dell_emc_cloud_onefs_cluster	Total storage space used by the cluster in bytes. Sampled every 60 seconds.

cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com

Metrics from NetApp Cloud Volumes. Launch stages of these metrics: BETA

The "metric type" strings in this table must be prefixed with cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/. That prefix has been omitted from the entries in the table.

Metric type ^Launch stage Display name
Kind, Type, Unit Monitored resources	Description Labels
cloudvolume/inode_allocation ^BETA Volume inode allocation
GAUGE, INT64, inode cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Inodes allocated for the volume (hard cap). Tied to allocated capacity (size) of volume.
cloudvolume/inode_usage ^BETA Volume inode usage
GAUGE, INT64, inode cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Number of inodes in use on the volume.
cloudvolume/logical_bytes_backed_up ^BETA Logical bytes backed up
GAUGE, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Logical bytes backed up (baseline and incremental changes).
cloudvolume/operation_count ^BETA Operations count
DELTA, INT64, 1 cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Number of operations being performed on the cloud volume by the end users. type: Type of operation, read, write, or metadata.
cloudvolume/read_bytes_count ^BETA Bytes read
DELTA, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	I/O bytes from read operations by the end user.
cloudvolume/replication_healthy ^BETA Volume Replication Healthy
GAUGE, INT64, 1 cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Values of TRUE for healthy and FALSE for unhealthy replication relationship.
cloudvolume/replication_lag_time ^BETA Volume Replication Transfer Lag Time
GAUGE, INT64, sec cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Elapsed time since the exported snapshot copy (last complete transfer) was created on the destination.
cloudvolume/replication_last_transfer_duration ^BETA Volume Replication Last Transfer Duration
GAUGE, INT64, sec cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Duration of the last transfer job.
cloudvolume/replication_last_transfer_size ^BETA Volume Replication Last Transfer Size
GAUGE, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Size of the last transfer job.
cloudvolume/replication_relationship_progress ^BETA Volume Replication Transfer Progress
CUMULATIVE, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Amount of data transferred thus far for the current job.
cloudvolume/replication_relationship_status ^BETA Volume Replication Status
GAUGE, INT64, 1 cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Status of replication: TRUE = transferring, FALSE = idle.
cloudvolume/replication_total_transfer_bytes ^BETA Volume Replication Total Transfer Bytes
CUMULATIVE, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Cumulative data transferred for the relationship since it was created.
cloudvolume/request_latencies ^BETA Volume IO operation latency
DELTA, DISTRIBUTION, ms cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Distribution of IO operation request latencies, in milliseconds. method: Type of latency, read or write.
cloudvolume/volume_percent_used ^BETA Volume percentage used
GAUGE, INT64, percent cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Percent of volume allocated space used.
cloudvolume/volume_size ^BETA Volume space allocation
GAUGE, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Space allocated to the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual provisioned size of the volume.
cloudvolume/volume_usage ^BETA Volume space usage
GAUGE, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	Space utilized by the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual size of the volume. type: Type of usage, logical or snapshot.
cloudvolume/write_bytes_count ^BETA Bytes written
DELTA, INT64, By cloudvolumesgcp-api.netapp.com/CloudVolume	I/O bytes from write operations by the end user.
cloudvolume_so/logical_bytes_backed_up ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Logical Bytes Backed Up
GAUGE, INT64, By	Number of uncompressed/unencrypted bytes (represented by optimized bytes backed up) backed up per volume per metric period.
cloudvolume_so/operation_count ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Operation Count
DELTA, INT64, 1	Number of operations being performed on the cloud volume by the end users. type: Number of operations being performed on the cloud volume by the end users.
cloudvolume_so/read_bytes_count ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Read Bytes Count
DELTA, INT64, By	I/O bytes from read operations by the end user.
cloudvolume_so/request_latencies ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Request Latencies
DELTA, DISTRIBUTION, ms	Distribution of IO operation latencies, in milliseconds. A measure of responsiveness of the volume. method: Volume IO operation executed.
cloudvolume_so/volume_size ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Volume Size
GAUGE, INT64, By	Space allocated to the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual provisioned size of the volume.
cloudvolume_so/volume_usage ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Volume Usage
GAUGE, INT64, By	Space utilized by the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual size of the volume. type: Space utilized by the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual size of the volume.
cloudvolume_so/write_bytes_count ^DEPRECATED NetApp CVS-SO Write Bytes Count
DELTA, INT64, By	I/O bytes from write operations by the end user.
cloudvolumepool/size ^BETA Storage pool space allocation
GAUGE, INT64, By	Space allocated to the pool, in bytes.
cloudvolumepool/usage ^BETA Storage pool space usage
GAUGE, INT64, By	Space used by all the volumes in the storage pool, in bytes.

netapp.com

Metrics from NetApp.

The "metric type" strings in this table must be prefixed with netapp.com/. That prefix has been omitted from the entries in the table.

Metric type ^Launch stage Display name
Kind, Type, Unit Monitored resources	Description Labels
cloudvolume/inode_allocation ^DEPRECATED Volume inode allocation
GAUGE, INT64, {inode} netapp_cloud_volume	Inode allocated for the volume (hard cap). Tied to allocated capacity (size) of volume. Sampled every 300 seconds.
cloudvolume/inode_usage ^DEPRECATED Volume inode usage
GAUGE, INT64, {inode} netapp_cloud_volume	Number of inode in use on the volume. Sampled every 300 seconds. type: Type of usage, either logical or snapshot.
cloudvolume/operation_count ^DEPRECATED Operations count
DELTA, INT64, count netapp_cloud_volume	Number of operations being performed on the cloud volume by the end users. Sampled every 60 seconds. type: Type of utilization, either logical or snapshot.
cloudvolume/read_bytes_count ^DEPRECATED Bytes read
DELTA, INT64, By netapp_cloud_volume	I/O bytes from read operations by the end user. Sampled every 60 seconds.
cloudvolume/request_latencies ^DEPRECATED Volume IO operation latency
DELTA, DISTRIBUTION, ms netapp_cloud_volume	Distribution of IO operation request latencies, in milliseconds. A measure of responsiveness of the volume. Sampled every 60 seconds. method: NetApp Cloud Volume IO operation.
cloudvolume/volume_size ^DEPRECATED Volume space allocation
GAUGE, INT64, By netapp_cloud_volume	Space allocated to the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual provisioned size of the volume. Sampled every 60 seconds.
cloudvolume/volume_usage ^DEPRECATED Volume space usage
GAUGE, INT64, By netapp_cloud_volume	Space utilized by the volume, in bytes. A measure of the actual size of the volume. Sampled every 60 seconds. type: Type of usage, either logical or snapshot.
cloudvolume/write_bytes_count ^DEPRECATED Bytes written
DELTA, INT64, By netapp_cloud_volume	I/O bytes from write operations by the end user. Sampled every 60 seconds.

Generated at 2022-09-23 17:22:49 UTC.