Azure metrics

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    • The following tables list and describe the metrics that are gathered as output from Azure checks. Entries indicated as Featured metrics are high-visibility metrics that are displayed in the Operator Workspace Metric tab after an alert is generated. These metrics provide the operator with additional information to help them further explore the specified issue.

    Table 1. Azure Kubernetes Service check metrics
    Metric Name Description
    apiserver_current_inflight_requests

    (Featured metric)

    		 Maximum number of currently used inflight requests on the API server per request kind in the past second
    cluster_autoscaler_cluster_safe_to_autoscale Determines whether cluster autoscaler takes action on the cluster
    cluster_autoscaler_scale_down_in_cooldown Determines if the scale down is in cooldown; no nodes are removed during this timeframe
    cluster_autoscaler_unschedulable_pods_count Number of pods that are currently not able to be scheduled in the cluster
    kube_node_status_allocatable_cpu_cores

    (Featured metric)

    		 Total number of available CPU cores in a managed cluster
    kube_node_status_allocatable_memory_bytes

    (Featured metric)

    		 Total amount of available memory in a managed cluster
    kube_node_status_condition

    (Featured metric)

    		 Statuses for various node conditions
    kube_pod_status_phase

    (Featured metric)

    		 Number of pods by phase
    kube_pod_status_ready

    (Featured metric)

    		 Number of pods in Ready state
    node_cpu_usage_millicores

    (Featured metric)

    		 Aggregated measurement of CPU utilization in millicores across the cluster
    node_cpu_usage_percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Aggregated average CPU utilization measured in percentage across the cluster
    node_disk_usage_bytes Number of disk space bytes in use by device
    node_disk_usage_percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of disk space used by device
    node_memory_rss_bytes Number of container RSS memory bytes in use
    node_memory_rss_percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of container RSS memory in use
    node_memory_working_set_bytes Number of container working set memory bytes in use
    node_memory_working_set_percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of container working set memory in use
    node_network_in_bytes

    (Featured metric)

    		 Network received bytes
    node_network_out_bytes

    (Featured metric)

    		 Network transmitted bytes
    Table 2. Azure VM CPU metrics
    Metric Name Description
    Percentage CPU

    (Featured metric)

    		 The percentage of allocated compute units that are currently in use by the Virtual Machine(s)
    CPU Credits Remaining Total number of credits available to burst. Only available on B-series burstable VMs
    CPU Credits Consumed Total number of credits consumed by the Virtual Machine. Only available on B-series burstable VM
    Table 3. Azure VM Network metrics
    Metric Name Description
    Network In

    (Featured metric)

    		 The number of billable bytes received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machines (Incoming Traffic) (Deprecated)
    Network Out

    (Featured metric)

    		 The number of billable bytes out on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machines (Outgoing Traffic) (Deprecated)
    Network In Total

    (Featured metric)

    		 The number of bytes received on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machines (Incoming Traffic)
    Network Out Total

    (Featured metric)

    		 The number of bytes out on all network interfaces by the Virtual Machines (Outgoing Traffic)
    Table 4. Azure VM Disk metrics
    Metric Name Description
    Disk Read Bytes

    (Featured metric)

    		 Bytes read from disk during monitoring period
    Disk Write Bytes

    (Featured metric)

    		 Bytes written to disk during monitoring period
    Disk Read Operations/Sec

    (Featured metric)

    		 Disk Read IOPS
    Disk Write Operations/Sec

    (Featured metric)

    		 Disk Write IOPS
    Data Disk Read Bytes/sec

    (Featured metric)

    		 Bytes per second read from a single disk during monitoring period
    Data Disk Write Bytes/sec

    (Featured metric)

    		 Bytes per second written to a single disk during monitoring period
    Data Disk Read Operations/Sec

    (Featured metric)

    		 Read IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period
    Data Disk Write Operations/Sec

    (Featured metric)

    		 Write IOPS from a single disk during monitoring period
    Data Disk Bandwidth Consumed Percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of data disk bandwidth consumed per minute.
    Data Disk IOPS Consumed Percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of data disk I/Os consumed per minute.
    Data Disk Target Bandwidth

    (Featured metric)

    		 Baseline bytes per second throughput Data Disk can achieve without bursting.
    Data Disk Target IOPS

    (Featured metric)

    		 Baseline IOPS Data Disk can achieve without bursting.
    Data Disk Max Burst Bandwidth

    (Featured metric)

    		 Maximum bytes per second throughput Data Disk can achieve with bursting.
    Data Disk Max Burst IOPS

    (Featured metric)

    		 Maximum IOPS Data Disk can achieve with bursting.
    Data Disk Used Burst BPS Credits Percentage Percentage of Data Disk burst bandwidth credits used so far.
    Data Disk Used Burst IO Credits Percentage Percentage of Data Disk burst I/O credits used so far.
    Premium Data Disk Cache Read Hit

    (Featured metric)

    		 Premium Data Disk Cache Read Hit.
    Premium Data Disk Cache Read Miss

    (Featured metric)

    		 Premium Data Disk Cache Read Miss.
    Premium OS Disk Cache Read Hit

    (Featured metric)

    		 Premium OS Disk Cache Read Hit.
    Premium OS Disk Cache Read Miss

    (Featured metric)

    		 Premium OS Disk Cache Read Miss.
    Table 5. Azure VM Flow metrics
    Metric Name Description
    Inbound Flows

    (Featured metric)

    		 Inbound Flows are number of current flows in the inbound direction (traffic going into the VM).
    Outbound Flows

    (Featured metric)

    		 Maximum creation rate of outbound flows (traffic going out of the VM).
    Inbound Flows Maximum Creation Rate

    (Featured metric)

    		 Maximum creation rate of inbound flows (traffic going into the VM).
    Outbound Flows Maximum Creation Rate

    (Featured metric)

    		 Maximum creation rate of outbound flows (traffic going out of the VM).
    Table 6. Azure VM Memory metrics
    Metric Name Description
    VM Cached Bandwidth Consumed Percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of cached disk bandwidth consumed by the VM.
    VM Cached IOPS Consumed Percentage Percentage of cached disk IOPS consumed by the VM.
    VM Uncached Bandwidth Consumed Percentage

    (Featured metric)

    		 Percentage of uncached disk bandwidth consumed by the VM.
    VM Uncached Bandwidth Consumed Percentage Percentage of uncached disk IOPS consumed by the VM.
    Available Memory Byte

    (Featured metric)

    		 Amount of physical memory, in bytes, immediately available for allocation to a process or for system use in the Virtual Machine.
    Table 7. Azure Blob Services metrics
    Metric Name Description
    Availability Percentage of availability for the storage service or the specified API operation. Availability is calculated by taking the TotalBillableRequests value and dividing it by the number of applicable requests, including those that produced unexpected errors. All unexpected errors result in reduced availability for the storage service or the specified API operation.
    BlobCapacity

    (Featured metric)

    		 Amount of storage used by the storage account's Blob service, in bytes.
    BlobCount Number of Blobs in the storage account's Blob service
    Container Count Number of containers in the storage account's Blob service.
    Egress

    (Featured metric)

    		 Amount of Egress data, in bytes. Includes egress from an external client into Azure Storage as well as Egress within Azure. As a result, this number does not reflect billable Egress.
    Index Capacity

    (Featured metric)

    		 Amount of storage used by ADLS Gen2 (Hierarchical) Index, in bytes.
    Ingress

    (Featured metric)

    		 The amount of Ingress data, in bytes. Includes Ingress from an external client into Azure storage, as well as ingress within Azure.
    SuccessE2ELatency

    (Featured metric)

    		 End-to-end latency of successful requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation, in milliseconds. Includes the required processing time within Azure storage to read the request, send the response, and receive acknowledgment of the response.
    SuccessServerLatency

    (Featured metric)

    		 Latency used by Azure storage to process a successful request, in milliseconds. This value does not include the network latency specified in SuccessE2ELatency.
    Transactions Number of requests made to a storage service or the specified API operation. Includes successful and failed requests, as well as requests which produced errors. Use the ResponseType dimension for the number of different types of responses.