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etcd integration for Grafana Cloud

etcd is a distributed key-value store that is designed for distributed systems. This integration enables Grafana Alloy to send metrics to Grafana Cloud along with a useful pre-built dashboard for visualization.

This integration includes 15 useful alerts and 1 pre-built dashboard to help monitor and visualize etcd metrics.

Before you begin

etcd exposes a Prometheus metrics endpoint enabled by default.

Install etcd integration for Grafana Cloud

In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections in the left-hand menu.
Find etcd and click its tile to open the integration.
Review the prerequisites in the Configuration Details tab and set up Grafana Alloy to send etcd metrics to your Grafana Cloud instance.
Click Install to add this integration’s pre-built dashboard and alerts to your Grafana Cloud instance, and you can start monitoring your etcd setup.

Configuration snippets for Grafana Alloy

Simple mode

These snippets are configured to scrape a single etcd instance running locally with default ports.

First, manually copy and append the following snippets into your alloy configuration file.

Metrics snippets

alloy
discovery.relabel "metrics_integrations_integrations_etcd" {
	targets = [{
		__address__ = "localhost:2379",
	}]

	rule {
		target_label = "instance"
		replacement  = constants.hostname
	}
}

prometheus.scrape "metrics_integrations_integrations_etcd" {
	targets    = discovery.relabel.metrics_integrations_integrations_etcd.output
	forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.metrics_service.receiver]
	job_name   = "integrations/etcd"
}

Advanced mode

The following snippets provide examples to guide you through the configuration process.

To instruct Grafana Alloy to scrape your etcd instances, manually copy and append the snippets to your alloy configuration file, then follow subsequent instructions.

Advanced metrics snippets

alloy
discovery.relabel "metrics_integrations_integrations_etcd" {
	targets = [{
		__address__ = "localhost:2379",
	}]

	rule {
		target_label = "instance"
		replacement  = constants.hostname
	}
}

prometheus.scrape "metrics_integrations_integrations_etcd" {
	targets    = discovery.relabel.metrics_integrations_integrations_etcd.output
	forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.metrics_service.receiver]
	job_name   = "integrations/etcd"
}

To monitor your etcd instance, you must use a discovery.relabel component to discover your etcd Prometheus endpoint and apply appropriate labels, followed by a prometheus.scrape component to scrape it.

Configure the following properties within each discovery.relabel component:

__address__: The address to your etcd Prometheus metrics endpoint.
instance label: constants.hostname sets the instance label to your Grafana Alloy server hostname. If that is not suitable, change it to a value uniquely identifies this etcd instance.

If you have multiple etcd servers to scrape, configure one discovery.relabel for each and scrape them by including each under targets within the prometheus.scrape component.

Kubernetes instructions

Before you begin with Kubernetes

These instructions assume the use of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart.
Please see official documentation for the Helm chart deployment guide.

Configuration snippets for Kubernetes Helm chart

To scrape etcd, modify your Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart with these configuration snippets.

Replace any values between the angle brackets <> in the provided snippets with your desired configuration values.

Metrics snippets

alloy
integrations:
  etcd:
    instances:
      - name: etcd
        labelSelectors:
          <etcd-pod-label>: <etcd-pod-label-value>

Grafana Agent static configuration (deprecated)

The following section shows configuration for running Grafana Agent in static mode which is deprecated. You should use Grafana Alloy for all new deployments.

Before you begin with Grafana Agent static

etcd exposes a Prometheus metrics endpoint enabled by default.

Install etcd integration

In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections in the left-hand menu.
Find etcd and click its tile to open the integration.
Review the prerequisites in the Configuration Details tab and set up Grafana Agent to send etcd metrics to your Grafana Cloud instance.
Click Install to add this integration’s pre-built dashboard and alerts to your Grafana Cloud instance, and you can start monitoring your etcd setup.

Post-install configuration for the etcd integration

You should instruct Grafana Agent to scrape your etcd nodes.

etcd exposes a /metrics endpoint. To scrape it, add the provided snippet to your agent configuration file.

Make sure to change targets in the snippet according to your environment.

Configuration snippets for Grafana Agent

Below metrics.configs.scrape_configs, insert the following lines and change the URLs according to your environment:

yaml
    - job_name: integrations/etcd
      relabel_configs:
        - replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
          target_label: instance
      static_configs:
        - targets: ['localhost:2379']

Full example configuration for Grafana Agent

Refer to the following Grafana Agent configuration for a complete example that contains all the snippets used for the etcd integration. This example also includes metrics that are sent to monitor your Grafana Agent instance.

yaml
integrations:
  prometheus_remote_write:
  - basic_auth:
      password: <your_prom_pass>
      username: <your_prom_user>
    url: <your_prom_url>
  agent:
    enabled: true
    relabel_configs:
    - action: replace
      source_labels:
      - agent_hostname
      target_label: instance
    - action: replace
      target_label: job
      replacement: "integrations/agent-check"
    metric_relabel_configs:
    - action: keep
      regex: (prometheus_target_sync_length_seconds_sum|prometheus_target_scrapes_.*|prometheus_target_interval.*|prometheus_sd_discovered_targets|agent_build.*|agent_wal_samples_appended_total|process_start_time_seconds)
      source_labels:
      - __name__
  # Add here any snippet that belongs to the `integrations` section.
  # For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
logs:
  configs:
  - clients:
    - basic_auth:
        password: <your_loki_pass>
        username: <your_loki_user>
      url: <your_loki_url>
    name: integrations
    positions:
      filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
    scrape_configs:
      # Add here any snippet that belongs to the `logs.configs.scrape_configs` section.
      # For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
metrics:
  configs:
  - name: integrations
    remote_write:
    - basic_auth:
        password: <your_prom_pass>
        username: <your_prom_user>
      url: <your_prom_url>
    scrape_configs:
      # Add here any snippet that belongs to the `metrics.configs.scrape_configs` section.
      # For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
    - job_name: integrations/etcd
      relabel_configs:
        - replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
          target_label: instance
      static_configs:
        - targets: ['localhost:2379']
  global:
    scrape_interval: 60s
  wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-wal

Dashboards

The etcd integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your system.

etcd

Alerts

The etcd integration includes the following useful alerts:

Alert	Description
etcdMembersDown	Critical: etcd cluster members are down.
etcdInsufficientMembers	Critical: etcd cluster has insufficient number of members.
etcdNoLeader	Critical: etcd cluster has no leader.
etcdHighNumberOfLeaderChanges	Warning: etcd cluster has high number of leader changes.
etcdHighNumberOfFailedGRPCRequests	Warning: etcd cluster has high number of failed grpc requests.
etcdHighNumberOfFailedGRPCRequests	Critical: etcd cluster has high number of failed grpc requests.
etcdGRPCRequestsSlow	Critical: etcd grpc requests are slow
etcdMemberCommunicationSlow	Warning: etcd cluster member communication is slow.
etcdHighNumberOfFailedProposals	Warning: etcd cluster has high number of proposal failures.
etcdHighFsyncDurations	Warning: etcd cluster 99th percentile fsync durations are too high.
etcdHighFsyncDurations	Critical: etcd cluster 99th percentile fsync durations are too high.
etcdHighCommitDurations	Warning: etcd cluster 99th percentile commit durations are too high.
etcdDatabaseQuotaLowSpace	Critical: etcd cluster database is running full.
etcdExcessiveDatabaseGrowth	Warning: etcd cluster database growing very fast.
etcdDatabaseHighFragmentationRatio	Warning: etcd database size in use is less than 50% of the actual allocated storage.

Metrics

The most important metrics provided by the etcd integration, which are used on the pre-built dashboard and Prometheus alerts, are as follows:

etcd_disk_backend_commit_duration_seconds_bucket
etcd_disk_wal_fsync_duration_seconds_bucket
etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes
etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_use_in_bytes
etcd_network_client_grpc_received_bytes_total
etcd_network_client_grpc_sent_bytes_total
etcd_network_peer_received_bytes_total
etcd_network_peer_round_trip_time_seconds_bucket
etcd_network_peer_sent_bytes_total
etcd_network_peer_sent_failures_total
etcd_server_has_leader
etcd_server_leader_changes_seen_total
etcd_server_proposals_failed_total
etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes
grpc_server_handled_total
grpc_server_handling_seconds_bucket
grpc_server_started_total
process_resident_memory_bytes
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Changelog

# 1.0.0 - July 2025

* Update Kubernetes snippets to work with v2.x version of Grafana Monitoring Helm chart.

# 0.0.6 - September 2023

* New Filter Metrics option for configuring the Grafana Agent, which saves on metrics cost by dropping any metric not used by this integration. Beware that anything custom built using metrics that are not on the snippet will stop working.
* New hostname relabel option, which applies the instance name you write on the text box to the Grafana Agent configuration snippets, making it easier and less error prone to configure this mandatory label.

# 0.0.5 - July 2023

* Add Grafana Agent Operator configuration snippet to support etcd integration in the Kubernetes app
* Change panels to timeseries
* Style with sentence case
* Update alerts
  - Add new etcdDatabaseHighFragmentationRatio alert

# 0.0.4 - January 2023

* Update mixin to latest version:
  - Add missing summaries to alerts
  - Add lint config

# 0.0.3 - September 2022

* Update mixin to latest version:
  - Update the datasource template variable label to 'Data Source'

# 0.0.2 - October 2021

* Update mixin to latest version:
  - Fix job variable
  - Fix alerts descriptions

# 0.0.1 - October 2020

* Initial release

Cost

By connecting your etcd instance to Grafana Cloud, you might incur charges. To view information on the number of active series that your Grafana Cloud account uses for metrics included in each Cloud tier, see Active series and dpm usage and Cloud tier pricing.