Trickster exposes a Prometheus /metrics endpoint with a customizable listener port number (default is 8481). For more information on customizing the metrics configuration, see configuring.md.
The following metrics are available for polling with any Trickster configuration:
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trickster_build_info
(Gauge) - This gauge is always 1 when Trickster is running- labels:
goversion
- the version of go under which the running Trickster binary was builtrevision
- the commit ID on which the running Trickster binary was builtversion
- semantic version of the running Trickster binary
- labels:
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trickster_config_last_reload_successful
(Gauge) - The value is 1 when true (the last config reload was successful) or 0 when false -
trickster_config_last_reload_success_time_seconds
(Gauge) - Epoch timestamp of the last successful configuration reload -
trickster_frontend_requests_total
(Counter) - Count of front end requests handled by Trickster- labels:
backend_name
- the name of the configured backend handling the proxy requestprovider
- the type of the configured backend handling the proxy requestmethod
- the HTTP Method of the proxied requesthttp_status
- The HTTP response code provided by the backendpath
- the Path portion of the requested URL
- labels:
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trickster_frontend_requests_duration_seconds
(Histogram) - Histogram of front end request durations handled by Trickster- labels:
backend_name
- the name of the configured backend handling the proxy requestprovider
- the type of the configured backend handling the proxy requestmethod
- the HTTP Method of the proxied requesthttp_status
- The HTTP response code provided by the backendpath
- the Path portion of the requested URL
- labels:
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trickster_frontend_written_byte_total
(Counter) - Count of bytes written in front end requests handled by Trickster- labels:
backend_name
- the name of the configured backend handling the proxy requestprovider
- the type of the configured backend handling the proxy requestmethod
- the HTTP Method of the proxied requesthttp_status
- The HTTP response code provided by the backendpath
- the Path portion of the requested URL
- labels:
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trickster_proxy_requests_total
(Counter) - The total number of requests Trickster has handled.- labels:
backend_name
- the name of the configured backend handling the proxy requestprovider
- the type of the configured backend handling the proxy requestmethod
- the HTTP Method of the proxied requestcache_status
- status codes are described herehttp_status
- The HTTP response code provided by the backendpath
- the Path portion of the requested URL
- labels:
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trickster_proxy_points_total
(Counter) - The total number of data points Trickster has handled.- labels:
backend_name
- the name of the configured backend handling the proxy requestprovider
- the type of the configured backend handling the proxy requestcache_status
- status codes are described herepath
- the Path portion of the requested URL
- labels:
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trickster_proxy_request_duration_seconds
(Histogram) - Time required to proxy a given Prometheus query.- labels:
backend_name
- the name of the configured backend handling the proxy requestprovider
- the type of the configured backend handling the proxy requestmethod
- the HTTP Method of the proxied requestcache_status
- status codes are described herehttp_status
- The HTTP response code provided by the backendpath
- the Path portion of the requested URL
- labels:
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trickster_proxy_max_connections
(Gauge) - Trickster max number of allowed concurrent connections -
trickster_proxy_active_connections
(Gauge) - Trickster number of concurrent connections -
trickster_proxy_requested_connections_total
(Counter) - Trickster total number of connections requested by clients. -
trickster_proxy_accepted_connections_total
(Counter) - Trickster total number of accepted client connections. -
trickster_proxy_closed_connections_total
(Counter) - Trickster total number of administratively closed client connections. -
trickster_proxy_failed_connections_total
(Counter) - Trickster total number of failed client connections. -
trickster_cache_operation_objects_total
(Counter) - The total number of objects upon which the Trickster cache has operated.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache performing the operation$provider
- the type of the configured cache performing the operationoperation
- the name of the operation being performed (read, write, etc.)status
- the result of the operation being performed
- labels:
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trickster_cache_operation_bytes_total
(Counter) - The total number of bytes upon which the Trickster cache has operated.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache performing the operation$provider
- the type of the configured cache performing the operationoperation
- the name of the operation being performed (read, write, etc.)status
- the result of the operation being performed
- labels:
The following metrics are available only for Caches Types whose object lifecycle Trickster manages internally (Memory, Filesystem and bbolt):
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trickster_cache_events_total
(Counter) - The total number of events that change the Trickster cache, such as retention policy evictions.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache experiencing the event$provider
- the type of the configured cache experiencing the eventevent
- the name of the event being performedreason
- the reason the event occurred
- labels:
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trickster_cache_usage_objects
(Gauge) - The current count of objects in the Trickster cache.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache$provider
- the type of the configured cache$
- labels:
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trickster_cache_usage_bytes
(Gauge) - The current count of bytes in the Trickster cache.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache$provider
- the type of the configured cache$
- labels:
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trickster_cache_max_usage_objects
(Gauge) - The maximum allowed size of the Trickster cache in objects.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache$provider
- the type of the configured cache
- labels:
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trickster_cache_max_usage_bytes
(Gauge) - The maximum allowed size of the Trickster cache in bytes.- labels:
cache_name
- the name of the configured cache$provider
- the type of the configured cache
- labels:
In addition to these custom metrics, Trickster also exposes the standard Prometheus metrics that are part of the client_golang metrics instrumentation package, including memory and cpu utilization, etc.