Statistics

General

The cluster manager has a statistics tree rooted at cluster_manager. with the following statistics. Any : character in the stats name is replaced with _. Stats include all clusters managed by the cluster manager, including both clusters used for data plane upstreams and control plane xDS clusters.

Name

Type

Description

cluster_added

Counter

Total clusters added (either via static config or CDS)

cluster_modified

Counter

Total clusters modified (via CDS)

cluster_removed

Counter

Total clusters removed (via CDS)

cluster_updated

Counter

Total cluster updates

cluster_updated_via_merge

Counter

Total cluster updates applied as merged updates

update_merge_cancelled

Counter

Total merged updates that got cancelled and delivered early

update_out_of_merge_window

Counter

Total updates which arrived out of a merge window

active_clusters

Gauge

Number of currently active (warmed) clusters

warming_clusters

Gauge

Number of currently warming (not active) clusters

Every cluster has a statistics tree rooted at cluster.<name>. with the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

upstream_cx_total

Counter

Total connections

upstream_cx_active

Gauge

Total active connections

upstream_cx_http1_total

Counter

Total HTTP/1.1 connections

upstream_cx_http2_total

Counter

Total HTTP/2 connections

upstream_cx_http3_total

Counter

Total HTTP/3 connections

upstream_cx_connect_fail

Counter

Total connection failures

upstream_cx_connect_timeout

Counter

Total connection connect timeouts

upstream_cx_idle_timeout

Counter

Total connection idle timeouts

upstream_cx_connect_attempts_exceeded

Counter

Total consecutive connection failures exceeding configured connection attempts

upstream_cx_overflow

Counter

Total times that the cluster’s connection circuit breaker overflowed

upstream_cx_connect_ms

Histogram

Connection establishment milliseconds

upstream_cx_length_ms

Histogram

Connection length milliseconds

upstream_cx_destroy

Counter

Total destroyed connections

upstream_cx_destroy_local

Counter

Total connections destroyed locally

upstream_cx_destroy_remote

Counter

Total connections destroyed remotely

upstream_cx_destroy_with_active_rq

Counter

Total connections destroyed with 1+ active request

upstream_cx_destroy_local_with_active_rq

Counter

Total connections destroyed locally with 1+ active request

upstream_cx_destroy_remote_with_active_rq

Counter

Total connections destroyed remotely with 1+ active request

upstream_cx_close_notify

Counter

Total connections closed via HTTP/1.1 connection close header or HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 GOAWAY

upstream_cx_rx_bytes_total

Counter

Total received connection bytes

upstream_cx_rx_bytes_buffered

Gauge

Received connection bytes currently buffered

upstream_cx_tx_bytes_total

Counter

Total sent connection bytes

upstream_cx_tx_bytes_buffered

Gauge

Send connection bytes currently buffered

upstream_cx_pool_overflow

Counter

Total times that the cluster’s connection pool circuit breaker overflowed

upstream_cx_protocol_error

Counter

Total connection protocol errors

upstream_cx_max_requests

Counter

Total connections closed due to maximum requests

upstream_cx_none_healthy

Counter

Total times connection not established due to no healthy hosts

upstream_rq_total

Counter

Total requests

upstream_rq_active

Gauge

Total active requests

upstream_rq_pending_total

Counter

Total requests pending a connection pool connection

upstream_rq_pending_overflow

Counter

Total requests that overflowed connection pool or requests (mainly for HTTP/2 and above) circuit breaking and were failed

upstream_rq_pending_failure_eject

Counter

Total requests that were failed due to a connection pool connection failure or remote connection termination

upstream_rq_pending_active

Gauge

Total active requests pending a connection pool connection

upstream_rq_cancelled

Counter

Total requests cancelled before obtaining a connection pool connection

upstream_rq_maintenance_mode

Counter

Total requests that resulted in an immediate 503 due to maintenance mode

upstream_rq_timeout

Counter

Total requests that timed out waiting for a response

upstream_rq_max_duration_reached

Counter

Total requests closed due to max duration reached

upstream_rq_per_try_timeout

Counter

Total requests that hit the per try timeout (except when request hedging is enabled)

upstream_rq_rx_reset

Counter

Total requests that were reset remotely

upstream_rq_tx_reset

Counter

Total requests that were reset locally

upstream_rq_retry

Counter

Total request retries

upstream_rq_retry_backoff_exponential

Counter

Total retries using the exponential backoff strategy

upstream_rq_retry_backoff_ratelimited

Counter

Total retries using the ratelimited backoff strategy

upstream_rq_retry_limit_exceeded

Counter

Total requests not retried due to exceeding the configured number of maximum retries

upstream_rq_retry_success

Counter

Total request retry successes

upstream_rq_retry_overflow

Counter

Total requests not retried due to circuit breaking or exceeding the retry budget

upstream_flow_control_paused_reading_total

Counter

Total number of times flow control paused reading from upstream

upstream_flow_control_resumed_reading_total

Counter

Total number of times flow control resumed reading from upstream

upstream_flow_control_backed_up_total

Counter

Total number of times the upstream connection backed up and paused reads from downstream

upstream_flow_control_drained_total

Counter

Total number of times the upstream connection drained and resumed reads from downstream

upstream_internal_redirect_failed_total

Counter

Total number of times failed internal redirects resulted in redirects being passed downstream.

upstream_internal_redirect_succeeded_total

Counter

Total number of times internal redirects resulted in a second upstream request.

membership_change

Counter

Total cluster membership changes

membership_healthy

Gauge

Current cluster healthy total (inclusive of both health checking and outlier detection)

membership_degraded

Gauge

Current cluster degraded total

membership_excluded

Gauge

Current cluster excluded total

membership_total

Gauge

Current cluster membership total

retry_or_shadow_abandoned

Counter

Total number of times shadowing or retry buffering was canceled due to buffer limits

config_reload

Counter

Total API fetches that resulted in a config reload due to a different config

update_attempt

Counter

Total attempted cluster membership updates by service discovery

update_success

Counter

Total successful cluster membership updates by service discovery

update_failure

Counter

Total failed cluster membership updates by service discovery

update_duration

Histogram

Amount of time spent updating configs

update_empty

Counter

Total cluster membership updates ending with empty cluster load assignment and continuing with previous config

update_no_rebuild

Counter

Total successful cluster membership updates that didn’t result in any cluster load balancing structure rebuilds

version

Gauge

Hash of the contents from the last successful API fetch

max_host_weight

Gauge

Maximum weight of any host in the cluster

bind_errors

Counter

Total errors binding the socket to the configured source address

assignment_timeout_received

Counter

Total assignments received with endpoint lease information.

assignment_stale

Counter

Number of times the received assignments went stale before new assignments arrived.

HTTP/3 protocol statistics

HTTP/3 protocol stats are global with the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

upstream.<tx/rx>.quic_connection_close_error_code_<error_code>

Counter

A collection of counters that are lazily initialized to record each QUIC connection close’s error code.

upstream.<tx/rx>.quic_reset_stream_error_code_<error_code>

Counter

A collection of counters that are lazily initialized to record each QUIC stream reset error code.

Health check statistics

If health check is configured, the cluster has an additional statistics tree rooted at cluster.<name>.health_check. with the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

attempt

Counter

Number of health checks

success

Counter

Number of successful health checks

failure

Counter

Number of immediately failed health checks (e.g. HTTP 503) as well as network failures

passive_failure

Counter

Number of health check failures due to passive events (e.g. x-envoy-immediate-health-check-fail)

network_failure

Counter

Number of health check failures due to network error

verify_cluster

Counter

Number of health checks that attempted cluster name verification

healthy

Gauge

Number of healthy members

Outlier detection statistics

If outlier detection is configured for a cluster, statistics will be rooted at cluster.<name>.outlier_detection. and contain the following:

Name

Type

Description

ejections_enforced_total

Counter

Number of enforced ejections due to any outlier type

ejections_active

Gauge

Number of currently ejected hosts

ejections_overflow

Counter

Number of ejections aborted due to the max ejection %

ejections_enforced_consecutive_5xx

Counter

Number of enforced consecutive 5xx ejections

ejections_detected_consecutive_5xx

Counter

Number of detected consecutive 5xx ejections (even if unenforced)

ejections_enforced_success_rate

Counter

Number of enforced success rate outlier ejections. Exact meaning of this counter depends on outlier_detection.split_external_local_origin_errors config item. Refer to Outlier Detection documentation for details.

ejections_detected_success_rate

Counter

Number of detected success rate outlier ejections (even if unenforced). Exact meaning of this counter depends on outlier_detection.split_external_local_origin_errors config item. Refer to Outlier Detection documentation for details.

ejections_enforced_consecutive_gateway_failure

Counter

Number of enforced consecutive gateway failure ejections

ejections_detected_consecutive_gateway_failure

Counter

Number of detected consecutive gateway failure ejections (even if unenforced)

ejections_enforced_consecutive_local_origin_failure

Counter

Number of enforced consecutive local origin failure ejections

ejections_detected_consecutive_local_origin_failure

Counter

Number of detected consecutive local origin failure ejections (even if unenforced)

ejections_enforced_local_origin_success_rate

Counter

Number of enforced success rate outlier ejections for locally originated failures

ejections_detected_local_origin_success_rate

Counter

Number of detected success rate outlier ejections for locally originated failures (even if unenforced)

ejections_enforced_failure_percentage

Counter

Number of enforced failure percentage outlier ejections. Exact meaning of this counter depends on outlier_detection.split_external_local_origin_errors config item. Refer to Outlier Detection documentation for details.

ejections_detected_failure_percentage

Counter

Number of detected failure percentage outlier ejections (even if unenforced). Exact meaning of this counter depends on outlier_detection.split_external_local_origin_errors config item. Refer to Outlier Detection documentation for details.

ejections_enforced_failure_percentage_local_origin

Counter

Number of enforced failure percentage outlier ejections for locally originated failures

ejections_detected_failure_percentage_local_origin

Counter

Number of detected failure percentage outlier ejections for locally originated failures (even if unenforced)

ejections_total

Counter

Deprecated. Number of ejections due to any outlier type (even if unenforced)

ejections_consecutive_5xx

Counter

Deprecated. Number of consecutive 5xx ejections (even if unenforced)

Circuit breakers statistics

Circuit breakers statistics will be rooted at cluster.<name>.circuit_breakers.<priority>. and contain the following:

Name

Type

Description

cx_open

Gauge

Whether the connection circuit breaker is under its concurrency limit (0) or is at capacity and no longer admitting (1)

cx_pool_open

Gauge

Whether the connection pool circuit breaker is under its concurrency limit (0) or is at capacity and no longer admitting (1)

rq_pending_open

Gauge

Whether the pending requests circuit breaker is under its concurrency limit (0) or is at capacity and no longer admitting (1)

rq_open

Gauge

Whether the requests circuit breaker is under its concurrency limit (0) or is at capacity and no longer admitting (1)

rq_retry_open

Gauge

Whether the retry circuit breaker is under its concurrency limit (0) or is at capacity and no longer admitting (1)

remaining_cx

Gauge

Number of remaining connections until the circuit breaker reaches its concurrency limit

remaining_pending

Gauge

Number of remaining pending requests until the circuit breaker reaches its concurrency limit

remaining_rq

Gauge

Number of remaining requests until the circuit breaker reaches its concurrency limit

remaining_retries

Gauge

Number of remaining retries until the circuit breaker reaches its concurrency limit

Timeout budget statistics

If timeout budget statistic tracking is turned on, statistics will be added to cluster.<name> and contain the following:

Name

Type

Description

upstream_rq_timeout_budget_percent_used

Histogram

What percentage of the global timeout was used waiting for a response

upstream_rq_timeout_budget_per_try_percent_used

Histogram

What percentage of the per try timeout was used waiting for a response

Dynamic HTTP statistics

If HTTP is used, dynamic HTTP response code statistics are also available. These are emitted by various internal systems as well as some filters such as the router filter and rate limit filter. They are rooted at cluster.<name>. and contain the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

upstream_rq_completed

Counter

Total upstream requests completed

upstream_rq_<*xx>

Counter

Aggregate HTTP response codes (e.g., 2xx, 3xx, etc.)

upstream_rq_<*>

Counter

Specific HTTP response codes (e.g., 201, 302, etc.)

upstream_rq_time

Histogram

Request time milliseconds

canary.upstream_rq_completed

Counter

Total upstream canary requests completed

canary.upstream_rq_<*xx>

Counter

Upstream canary aggregate HTTP response codes

canary.upstream_rq_<*>

Counter

Upstream canary specific HTTP response codes

canary.upstream_rq_time

Histogram

Upstream canary request time milliseconds

internal.upstream_rq_completed

Counter

Total internal origin requests completed

internal.upstream_rq_<*xx>

Counter

Internal origin aggregate HTTP response codes

internal.upstream_rq_<*>

Counter

Internal origin specific HTTP response codes

internal.upstream_rq_time

Histogram

Internal origin request time milliseconds

external.upstream_rq_completed

Counter

Total external origin requests completed

external.upstream_rq_<*xx>

Counter

External origin aggregate HTTP response codes

external.upstream_rq_<*>

Counter

External origin specific HTTP response codes

external.upstream_rq_time

Histogram

External origin request time milliseconds

TLS statistics

If TLS is used by the cluster the following statistics are rooted at cluster.<name>.ssl.:

Name

Type

Description

connection_error

Counter

Total TLS connection errors not including failed certificate verifications

handshake

Counter

Total successful TLS connection handshakes

session_reused

Counter

Total successful TLS session resumptions

no_certificate

Counter

Total successful TLS connections with no client certificate

fail_verify_no_cert

Counter

Total TLS connections that failed because of missing client certificate

fail_verify_error

Counter

Total TLS connections that failed CA verification

fail_verify_san

Counter

Total TLS connections that failed SAN verification

fail_verify_cert_hash

Counter

Total TLS connections that failed certificate pinning verification

ocsp_staple_failed

Counter

Total TLS connections that failed compliance with the OCSP policy

ocsp_staple_omitted

Counter

Total TLS connections that succeeded without stapling an OCSP response

ocsp_staple_responses

Counter

Total TLS connections where a valid OCSP response was available (irrespective of whether the client requested stapling)

ocsp_staple_requests

Counter

Total TLS connections where the client requested an OCSP staple

ciphers.<cipher>

Counter

Total successful TLS connections that used cipher <cipher>

curves.<curve>

Counter

Total successful TLS connections that used ECDHE curve <curve>

sigalgs.<sigalg>

Counter

Total successful TLS connections that used signature algorithm <sigalg>

versions.<version>

Counter

Total successful TLS connections that used protocol version <version>

Alternate tree dynamic HTTP statistics

If alternate tree statistics are configured, they will be present in the cluster.<name>.<alt name>. namespace. The statistics produced are the same as documented in the dynamic HTTP statistics section above.

Per service zone dynamic HTTP statistics

If the service zone is available for the local service (via --service-zone) and the upstream cluster, Envoy will track the following statistics in cluster.<name>.zone.<from_zone>.<to_zone>. namespace.

Name

Type

Description

upstream_rq_<*xx>

Counter

Aggregate HTTP response codes (e.g., 2xx, 3xx, etc.)

upstream_rq_<*>

Counter

Specific HTTP response codes (e.g., 201, 302, etc.)

upstream_rq_time

Histogram

Request time milliseconds

Load balancer statistics

Statistics for monitoring load balancer decisions. Stats are rooted at cluster.<name>. and contain the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

lb_recalculate_zone_structures

Counter

The number of times locality aware routing structures are regenerated for fast decisions on upstream locality selection

lb_healthy_panic

Counter

Total requests load balanced with the load balancer in panic mode

lb_zone_cluster_too_small

Counter

No zone aware routing because of small upstream cluster size

lb_zone_routing_all_directly

Counter

Sending all requests directly to the same zone

lb_zone_routing_sampled

Counter

Sending some requests to the same zone

lb_zone_routing_cross_zone

Counter

Zone aware routing mode but have to send cross zone

lb_local_cluster_not_ok

Counter

Local host set is not set or it is panic mode for local cluster

lb_zone_number_differs

Counter

Number of zones in local and upstream cluster different

lb_zone_no_capacity_left

Counter

Total number of times ended with random zone selection due to rounding error

original_dst_host_invalid

Counter

Total number of invalid hosts passed to original destination load balancer

Load balancer subset statistics

Statistics for monitoring load balancer subset decisions. Stats are rooted at cluster.<name>. and contain the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

lb_subsets_active

Gauge

Number of currently available subsets

lb_subsets_created

Counter

Number of subsets created

lb_subsets_removed

Counter

Number of subsets removed due to no hosts

lb_subsets_selected

Counter

Number of times any subset was selected for load balancing

lb_subsets_fallback

Counter

Number of times the fallback policy was invoked

lb_subsets_fallback_panic

Counter

Number of times the subset panic mode triggered

lb_subsets_single_host_per_subset_duplicate

Gauge

Number of duplicate (unused) hosts when using single_host_per_subset

Ring hash load balancer statistics

Statistics for monitoring the size and effective distribution of hashes when using the ring hash load balancer. Stats are rooted at cluster.<name>.ring_hash_lb. and contain the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

size

Gauge

Total number of host hashes on the ring

min_hashes_per_host

Gauge

Minimum number of hashes for a single host

max_hashes_per_host

Gauge

Maximum number of hashes for a single host

Maglev load balancer statistics

Statistics for monitoring effective host weights when using the Maglev load balancer. Stats are rooted at cluster.<name>.maglev_lb. and contain the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

min_entries_per_host

Gauge

Minimum number of entries for a single host

max_entries_per_host

Gauge

Maximum number of entries for a single host

Request Response Size statistics

If request response size statistics are tracked, statistics will be added to cluster.<name> and contain the following:

Name

Type

Description

upstream_rq_headers_size

Histogram

Request headers size in bytes per upstream

upstream_rq_body_size

Histogram

Request body size in bytes per upstream

upstream_rs_headers_size

Histogram

Response headers size in bytes per upstream

upstream_rs_body_size

Histogram

Response body size in bytes per upstream