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Prometheus metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent

The CloudWatch agent with Prometheus support automatically collects metrics from several services and workloads. The metrics that are collected by default are listed in the following sections. You can also configure the agent to collect more metrics from these services, and to collect Prometheus metrics from other applications and services. For more information about collecting additional metrics, see CloudWatch agent configuration for Prometheus.

Prometheus metrics collected from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters are in the ContainerInsights/Prometheus namespace. Prometheus metrics collected from Amazon ECS clusters are in the ECS/ContainerInsights/Prometheus namespace.

Prometheus metrics for App Mesh

The following metrics are automatically collected from App Mesh .

CloudWatch Container Insights can also collect App Mesh Envoy Access Logs. For more information, see (Optional) Enable App Mesh Envoy access logs.

Prometheus metrics for App Mesh on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters

Metric name Dimensions

envoy_http_downstream_rq_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_http_downstream_rq_xx

ClusterName, Namespace

ClusterName, Namespace, envoy_http_conn_manager_prefix, envoy_response_code_class

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_rx_bytes_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_tx_bytes_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_membership_healthy

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_membership_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_server_memory_heap_size

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_server_memory_allocated

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_connect_timeout

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_pending_failure_eject

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_pending_overflow

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_timeout

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_try_per_timeout

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_rx_reset

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_destroy_local_with_active_rq

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_destroy_remote_active_rq

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_maintenance_mode

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_paused_reading_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_resumed_reading_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_backed_up_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_drained_total

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_retry

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_retry_success

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_retry_overflow

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_server_live

ClusterName, Namespace

envoy_server_uptime

ClusterName, Namespace

Prometheus metrics for App Mesh on Amazon ECS clusters

Metric name Dimensions

envoy_http_downstream_rq_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_http_downstream_rq_xx

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_rx_bytes_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_tx_bytes_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_membership_healthy

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_membership_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_server_memory_heap_size

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_server_memory_allocated

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_connect_timeout

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_pending_failure_eject

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_pending_overflow

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_timeout

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_try_per_timeout

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_rx_reset

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_destroy_local_with_active_rq

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_destroy_remote_active_rq

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_maintenance_mode

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_paused_reading_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_resumed_reading_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_backed_up_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_flow_control_drained_total

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_retry

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_retry_success

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_retry_overflow

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_server_live

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_server_uptime

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

envoy_http_downstream_rq_xx

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily, envoy_http_conn_manager_prefix, envoy_response_code_class

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily, envoy_response_code_class

Note

TaskDefinitionFamily is the Kubernetes namespace of the mesh.

The value of envoy_http_conn_manager_prefix can be ingress, egress, or admin.

The value of envoy_response_code_class can be 1 (stands for 1xx), 2 stands for 2xx), 3 stands for 3xx), 4 stands for 4xx), or 5 stands for 5xx).

Prometheus metrics for NGINX

The following metrics are automatically collected from NGINX on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters.

Metric name Dimensions

nginx_ingress_controller_nginx_process_cpu_seconds_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_success

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_requests

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_nginx_process_connections

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_nginx_process_connections_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_nginx_process_resident_memory_bytes

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_config_last_reload_successful

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

nginx_ingress_controller_requests

ClusterName, Namespace, Service, status

Prometheus metrics for Memcached

The following metrics are automatically collected from Memcached on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters.

Metric name Dimensions

memcached_current_items

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_current_connections

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_limit_bytes

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_current_bytes

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_written_bytes_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_read_bytes_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_items_evicted_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_items_reclaimed_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

memcached_commands_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

ClusterName, Namespace, Service, command

ClusterName, Namespace, Service, status, command

Prometheus metrics for Java/JMX

Metrics collected on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters

On Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters, Container Insights can collect the following predefined Prometheus metrics from the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Java, and Tomcat (Catalina) using the JMX Exporter. For more information, see prometheus/jmx_exporter on Github.

Java/JMX on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters

Metric name Dimensions

jvm_classes_loaded

ClusterName, Namespace

jvm_threads_current

ClusterName, Namespace

jvm_threads_daemon

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_totalswapspacesize

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_systemcpuload

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_processcpuload

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_freeswapspacesize

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_totalphysicalmemorysize

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_freephysicalmemorysize

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_openfiledescriptorcount

ClusterName, Namespace

java_lang_operatingsystem_availableprocessors

ClusterName, Namespace

jvm_memory_bytes_used

ClusterName, Namespace, area

jvm_memory_pool_bytes_used

ClusterName, Namespace, pool

Note

The values of the area dimension can be heap or nonheap.

The values of the pool dimension can be Tenured Gen, Compress Class Space, Survivor Space, Eden Space, Code Cache, or Metaspace.

Tomcat/JMX on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters

In addition to the Java/JMX metrics in the previous table, the following metrics are also collected for the Tomcat workload.

Metric name Dimensions

catalina_manager_activesessions

ClusterName, Namespace

catalina_manager_rejectedsessions

ClusterName, Namespace

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_bytesreceived

ClusterName, Namespace

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_bytessent

ClusterName, Namespace

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_requestcount

ClusterName, Namespace

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_errorcount

ClusterName, Namespace

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_processingtime

ClusterName, Namespace

Java/JMX on Amazon ECS clusters

Metric name Dimensions

jvm_classes_loaded

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

jvm_threads_current

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

jvm_threads_daemon

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_totalswapspacesize

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_systemcpuload

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_processcpuload

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_freeswapspacesize

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_totalphysicalmemorysize

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_freephysicalmemorysize

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_openfiledescriptorcount

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

java_lang_operatingsystem_availableprocessors

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

jvm_memory_bytes_used

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily, area

jvm_memory_pool_bytes_used

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily, pool

Note

The values of the area dimension can be heap or nonheap.

The values of the pool dimension can be Tenured Gen, Compress Class Space, Survivor Space, Eden Space, Code Cache, or Metaspace.

Tomcat/JMX on Amazon ECS clusters

In addition to the Java/JMX metrics in the previous table, the following metrics are also collected for the Tomcat workload on Amazon ECS clusters.

Metric name Dimensions

catalina_manager_activesessions

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

catalina_manager_rejectedsessions

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_bytesreceived

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_bytessent

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_requestcount

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_errorcount

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

catalina_globalrequestprocessor_processingtime

ClusterName, TaskDefinitionFamily

Prometheus metrics for HAProxy

The following metrics are automatically collected from HAProxy on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes clusters.

The metrics collected depend on which version of HAProxy Ingress that you are using. For more information about HAProxy Ingress and its versions, see haproxy-ingress.

Metric name Dimensions Availability

haproxy_backend_bytes_in_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_bytes_out_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_connection_errors_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_connections_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_current_sessions

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_http_responses_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service, code, backend

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_status

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

Only in versions 0.10 or later of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_backend_up

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

Only in versions of HAProxy Ingress earlier than 0.10

haproxy_frontend_bytes_in_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_bytes_out_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_connections_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_current_sessions

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_http_requests_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_http_responses_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service, code, frontend

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_request_errors_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

haproxy_frontend_requests_denied_total

ClusterName, Namespace, Service

All versions of HAProxy Ingress

Note

The values of the code dimension can be 1xx, 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx, or other.

The values of the backend dimension can be:

  • http-default-backend, http-shared-backend, or httpsback-shared-backend for HAProxy Ingress version 0.0.27 or earlier.

  • _default_backend for HAProxy Ingress versions later than 0.0.27.

The values of the frontend dimension can be:

  • httpfront-default-backend, httpfront-shared-frontend, or httpfronts for HAProxy Ingress version 0.0.27 or earlier.

  • _front_http or _front_https for HAProxy Ingress versions later than 0.0.27.