The metrics endpoint

For an overview of other options for gathering statistics on Emissary-ingress, see the Statistics and Monitoring overview.

Each Emissary-ingress pod exposes statistics and metrics for that pod at http://{POD}:8877/metrics. The response is in the text-based Prometheus exposition format.

Understanding the statistics

The Prometheus exposition format includes special "HELP" lines that make the file self-documenting as to what specific statistics mean.

• envoy_*: See the Envoy documentation.
• ambassador_* (new in 1.7.0):
  • ambassador_edge_stack_* (not present in Emissary-ingress):
    • ambassador_edge_stack_go_*: See [promethus.NewGoCollector()][].
    • ambassador_edge_stack_promhttp_* See promhttp.Handler().
    • ambassador_edge_stack_process_*: See [promethus.NewProcessCollector()][]..
  • ambassador_*_time_seconds (for * = one of aconf, diagnostics, econf, fetcher, ir, or reconfiguration): Gauges of how long the various core operations take in the diagd process.
  • ambassador_diagnostics_(errors|notices): The number of diagnostics errors and notices that would be shown in the diagnostics UI or the Edge Policy Console.
  • ambassador_diagnostics_info: Info about the Emissary-ingress install; all information is presented in labels; the value of the Gauge is always "1".
  • ambassador_process_*: See prometheus_client.ProcessCollector.

Polling the :8877/metrics endpoint with Prometheus

To scrape metrics directly, follow the instructions for Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

Using Grafana to visualize statistics gathered by Prometheus

Sample dashboard

We provide a sample Grafana dashboard that displays information collected by Prometheus from the :8877/metrics endpoint.

Just Envoy information

Alex Gervais has written a template Emissary-ingress dashboard for Grafana that displays information collected by Prometheus either from the :8877/metrics endpoint, or from Envoy over StatsD. Because it is designed to work with the Envoy StatsD set up, it does not include any of the ambassador_* statistics; because of this, we recommend using the other sample dashboard above.