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Beyla exported metrics The following table describes the exported metrics in both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus format.
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Name (OTEL) Name (Prometheus) Type Unit Description http.client.duration
http_client_duration_seconds
Histogram seconds Duration of HTTP service calls from the client side http.client.request.size
http_client_request_size_bytes
Histogram bytes Size of the HTTP request body as sent by the client http.server.duration
http_server_duration_seconds
Histogram seconds Duration of HTTP service calls from the server side http.server.request.size
http_server_request_size_bytes
Histogram bytes Size of the HTTP request body as received at the server side rpc.client.duration
rpc_client_duration_seconds
Histogram seconds Duration of GRPC service calls from the client side rpc.server.duration
rpc_server_duration_seconds
Histogram seconds Duration of RPC service calls from the server side
Internal metrics Beyla can be configured to report internal metrics in Prometheus Format.
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Name Type Description ebpf_tracer_flushes
Histogram Length of the groups of traces flushed from the eBPF tracer to the next pipeline stage otel_metric_exports
Counter Length of the metric batches submitted to the remote OTEL collector otel_metric_export_errors
CounterVec Error count on each failed OTEL metric export, by error type otel_trace_exports
Counter Length of the trace batches submitted to the remote OTEL collector otel_trace_export_errors
CounterVec Error count on each failed OTEL trace export, by error type prometheus_http_requests
CounterVec Number of requests towards the Prometheus Scrape endpoint, faceted by HTTP port and path