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Beyla exported metrics
The following table describes the exported metrics in both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus format.
Name (OTEL) | Name (Prometheus) | Type | Unit | Description |
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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.
Name | Type | Description |
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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 |
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