Prometheus

The prometheus adapter collects Istio metrics and makes them available to Prometheus.

This adapter supports the metric template.

Params

Configuration format for the prometheus adapter.

Field Type Description
metrics Params.MetricInfo[]

The set of metrics to represent in Prometheus. If a metric is defined in Istio but doesn’t have a corresponding shape here, it will not be populated at runtime.

Params.MetricInfo

Describes how a metric should be represented in Prometheus.

Field Type Description
namespace string

Optional. The namespace is used as a prefix on the metric names. An example: for a metric named “requestcount” with a namespace of “istio”, the full metric name becomes “istiorequest_count”. NOTE: The specificed namespace should be a prometheus-safe name. If not, the adapter will attempt to convert the namespace to a prometheus-safe name. NOTE: Changing the value for this will potentially impact downstream integrations and should be used with caution. Default value: “istio”.

name string

Recommended. The name is used to register the prometheus metric. It must be unique across all prometheus metrics as prometheus does not allow duplicate names. If name is not specified a sanitized version of instance_name is used.

instanceName string

Required. The name is the fully qualified name of the Istio metric instance that this MetricInfo processes.

description string

Optional. A human readable description of this metric.

kind Params.MetricInfo.Kind
buckets Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition

For metrics with a metric kind of DISTRIBUTION, this provides a mechanism for configuring the buckets that will be used to store the aggregated values. This field must be provided for metrics declared to be of type DISTRIBUTION. This field will be ignored for non-distribution metric kinds.

labelNames string[]

The names of labels to use: these need to match the dimensions of the Istio metric. TODO: see if we can remove this and rely on only the dimensions in the future.

Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition

Describes buckets for DISTRIBUTION kind metrics.

Field Type Description
linearBuckets Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition.Linear (oneof)

The linear buckets.

exponentialBuckets Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition.Exponential (oneof)

The exponential buckets.

explicitBuckets Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition.Explicit (oneof)

The explicit buckets.

Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition.Explicit

Specifies a set of buckets with arbitrary widths.

There are size(bounds) + 1 (= N) buckets. Bucket i has the following boundaries:

  • Upper bound (0 <= i < N-1): bounds[i]
  • Lower bound (1 <= i < N): bounds[i - 1]

The bounds field must contain at least one element. If bounds has only one element, then there are no finite buckets, and that single element is the common boundary of the overflow and underflow buckets.

Field Type Description
bounds double[]

The values must be monotonically increasing.

Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition.Exponential

Specifies an exponential sequence of buckets that have a width that is proportional to the value of the lower bound. Each bucket represents a constant relative uncertainty on a specific value in the bucket.

There are num_finite_buckets + 2 (= N) buckets. The two additional buckets are the underflow and overflow buckets.

Bucket i has the following boundaries:

  • Upper bound (0 <= i < N-1): scale * (growth_factor ^ i)
  • Lower bound (1 <= i < N): scale * (growth_factor ^ (i - 1))
Field Type Description
numFiniteBuckets int32

Must be greater than 0.

growthFactor double

Must be greater than 1.

scale double

Must be greater than 0.

Params.MetricInfo.BucketsDefinition.Linear

Specifies a linear sequence of buckets that all have the same width (except overflow and underflow). Each bucket represents a constant absolute uncertainty on the specific value in the bucket.

There are num_finite_buckets + 2 (= N) buckets. The two additional buckets are the underflow and overflow buckets.

Bucket i has the following boundaries:

  • Upper bound (0 <= i < N-1): offset + (width * i)
  • Lower bound (1 <= i < N): offset + (width * (i - 1))
Field Type Description
numFiniteBuckets int32

Must be greater than 0.

width double

Must be greater than 0.

offset double

Lower bound of the first bucket.

Params.MetricInfo.Kind

Describes what kind of metric this is.

Name Description
UNSPECIFIED
GAUGE
COUNTER
DISTRIBUTION