This documents the metrics and tags emitted by gostatsd, their type, tags, and interpretation.
| Name | type | tags | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| aggregator.metrics_received | gauge | aggregator_id | The number of datapoints received during the flush interval |
| aggregator.processing_time | gauge | aggregator_id | The time taken (in ms) to aggregate all datapoints in this |
| flush interval | |||
| bad_lines_seen | counter | The number of unprocessable lines that have been seen | |
| events_received | counter | The number of events received | |
| metrics_received | counter | The number of metrics received | |
| packets_received | counter | The number of packets received | |
| channel.capacity | gauge | channel | The capacity of the channel |
| channel.queued | gauge | channel | The absolute amount of items in a channel |
| channel.pct_used | gauge | channel | The percentage of how full a channel is |
| internal_dropped | gauge | The number of internal metrics which have been dropped in the | |
| lifetime of the process. Not a counter, because it may not be | |||
| submitted. |
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| aggregator_id | The index of an aggregator, the amount corresponds to the --max-workers flag |
| channel | The name of an internal channel |
A number of channels are tracked internally, they emit metrics under the channels.* space. They will all have a channel tag, and may have additional tags specified below.
| Channel name | Additional tags | Description |
|---|---|---|
| dispatch_aggregator | aggregator_id | Channel to dispatch metrics to a specific aggregator. |
- If both --internal-namespace and --namespace are specified, and metrics are dispatched internally, the resulting metric will be namespace.internal_namespace.metric.