Updated on 2025-09-04 GMT+08:00

Basic Metrics: CCI 2.0 Metrics

This section describes the categories, names, and meanings of CCI 2.0 metrics reported to AOM.

Table 1 CCI 2.0 metrics

Category

Metric Name

Description

CPU

container_cpu_system_seconds_total

Cumulative container CPU system time

container_cpu_usage_seconds_total

Cumulative CPU time consumed by a container in core-seconds

container_cpu_user_seconds_total

Cumulative user CPU time

container_cpu_cfs_periods_total

Number of elapsed enforcement period intervals

container_cpu_cfs_throttled_periods_total

Number of throttled period intervals

container_cpu_cfs_throttled_seconds_total

Total duration a container has been throttled

File system or disk

container_fs_inodes_free

Number of available inodes in a file system

container_fs_usage_bytes

File system usage

container_fs_inodes_total

Number of inodes in a file system

container_fs_io_current

Number of I/Os currently in progress in a disk or file system

container_fs_io_time_seconds_total

Cumulative seconds spent on doing I/Os by a disk or file system

container_fs_io_time_weighted_seconds_total

Cumulative weighted I/O time of a disk or file system

container_fs_limit_bytes

Total disk or file system capacity that can be consumed by a container

container_fs_reads_bytes_total

Cumulative amount of disk or file system data read by a container

container_fs_read_seconds_total

Cumulative number of seconds a container spent on reading disk or file system data

container_fs_reads_merged_total

Cumulative number of merged disk or file system reads made by a container

container_fs_reads_total

Cumulative number of disk or file system reads completed by a container

container_fs_sector_reads_total

Cumulative number of disk or file system sector reads completed by a container

container_fs_sector_writes_total

Cumulative number of disk or file system sector writes completed by a container

container_fs_writes_bytes_total

Total amount of data written by a container to a disk or file system

container_fs_write_seconds_total

Cumulative number of seconds a container spent on writing data to a disk or file system

container_fs_writes_merged_total

Cumulative number of merged container writes to a disk or file system

container_fs_writes_total

Cumulative number of disk or file system writes completed by a container

container_blkio_device_usage_total

Blkio device bytes usage

Memory

container_memory_failures_total

Cumulative number of container memory allocation failures

container_memory_failcnt

Number of memory usage hits limits

container_memory_cache

Memory used for the page cache of a container

container_memory_mapped_file

Size of a container memory mapped file

container_memory_max_usage_bytes

Maximum memory usage recorded for a container

container_memory_rss

Size of the resident memory set for a container

container_memory_swap

Container swap usage

container_memory_usage_bytes

Current memory usage of a container

container_memory_working_set_bytes

Memory usage of the working set of a container

Network

container_network_receive_bytes_total

Total volume of data received by a container network

container_network_receive_errors_total

Cumulative number of errors encountered during reception

container_network_receive_packets_dropped_total

Cumulative number of packets dropped during reception

container_network_receive_packets_total

Cumulative number of packets received

container_network_transmit_bytes_total

Total volume of data transmitted on a container network

container_network_transmit_errors_total

Cumulative number of errors encountered during transmission

container_network_transmit_packets_dropped_total

Cumulative number of packets dropped during transmission

container_network_transmit_packets_total

Cumulative number of packets transmitted

Container spec or status

container_processes

Number of processes running inside a container

container_sockets

Number of open sockets for a container

container_file_descriptors

Number of open file descriptors for a container

container_threads

Number of threads running inside a container

container_threads_max

Maximum number of threads allowed inside a container

container_ulimits_soft

Soft ulimit value of process 1 in a container. Unlimited if the value is -1, except priority and nice.

container_spec_cpu_period

CPU period of a container

container_spec_cpu_shares

CPU share of a container

container_spec_cpu_quota

CPU quota of a container

container_spec_memory_limit_bytes

Memory limit for a container

container_spec_memory_reservation_limit_bytes

Memory reservation limit for a container

container_spec_memory_swap_limit_bytes

Memory swap limit for a container

container_start_time_seconds

Running time of a container

container_last_seen

Last time a container was seen by an exporter

Object status metrics

kube_pod_info

Pod information

kube_pod_owner

Information about the pod's owner

kube_pod_container_resource_limits

Number of container resource limits

kube_replicaset_owner

Information about the ReplicaSet's owner