Updated on 2025-06-27 GMT+08:00

Basic Metrics: CAE Metrics

This section describes the types, names, and meanings of Cloud Application Engine (CAE) metrics reported to AOM.

Table 1 CAE metrics

Category

Metric Name

Description

job:kubernetes-cadvisor

cadvisor_version_info

Version information of the cAdvisor module (a Docker container monitoring tool) in Prometheus

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

container_cpu_load_average_10s

Value of container CPU load average over the last 10 seconds

machine_cpu_physical_cores

Number of physical CPU cores

machine_cpu_sockets

Number of CPU slots on a host

machine_nvm_avg_power_budget_watts

Average power budget for non-volatile memory (NVM)

machine_nvm_capacity

NVM of a host (usually a server or node)

machine_scrape_error

Error encountered when collecting metrics from the target host (usually a server or container)

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_file_descriptors

Number of open file descriptors for a container

container_fs_inodes_free

Number of available inodes in a file system

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_read_seconds_total

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

container_fs_reads_bytes_total

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

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_usage_bytes

File system usage

container_fs_write_seconds_total

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

container_fs_writes_bytes_total

Total amount of data written by a container 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_last_seen

Last time a container was seen by an exporter

container_memory_cache

Memory used for the page cache of a container

container_memory_failcnt

Number of memory usage hits limits

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

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_processes

Number of processes running inside a container

container_scrape_error

Number of errors encountered when collecting metrics from a container

container_sockets

Number of open sockets for a container

container_spec_cpu_period

CPU period of a container

container_spec_cpu_quota

CPU quota of a container

container_spec_cpu_shares

CPU share 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_tasks_state

Number of tasks in the specified state, such as sleeping, running, stopped, uninterruptible, or ioawaiting

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.

machine_cpu_cores

Number of CPU cores of a physical machine or VM

machine_memory_bytes

Total memory size of a physical machine or VM

scrape_duration_seconds

Time taken to obtain monitoring data (that is, "scrape" data) from the target resource

scrape_samples_post_metric_relabeling

Number of samples collected after relabeling

scrape_samples_scraped

Number of samples scraped in a specific period

scrape_series_added

Performance of the monitoring data collection system (such as Prometheus)

up

Running time of a system component or service. For example, in a containerized environment (such as a Docker container), up indicates the startup time of a container.

job:kubernetes-node-exporter

node_filesystem_size_bytes

Consumed space of a file system

node_memory_Buffers_bytes

Memory of the node buffer

node_cpu_seconds_total

Seconds each CPU spent doing each type of work

node_filesystem_avail_bytes

File system space that is available for use

node_memory_Cached_bytes

Memory for the node page cache

node_memory_MemFree_bytes

Free memory of a node

node_memory_MemTotal_bytes

Total memory of a node

node_network_receive_bytes_total

Total amount of received data

node_network_transmit_bytes_total

Total amount of transmitted data

node_disk_reads_completed_total

Number of disk reads completed

node_disk_writes_completed_total

Number of disk writes completed

Aggregated metrics

cae_container_cpu_usage

CPU usage of a container

cae_container_downlink_bps

Downlink bandwidth of a container (that is, the rate for transmitting data from the container to the external network)

cae_container_fs_reads_bytes_total

Total number of bytes read by a container from a file system

cae_container_fs_writes_bytes_total

Number of bytes written by a container to a file system

cae_container_memory_usage

Memory usage of a container

cae_container_uplink_bps

Uplink bandwidth rate (bit/s) of a container

cae_node_cup_usage

CPU usage of a node (usually a Kubernetes node or physical/virtual server)

cae_node_disk_reads_bytes

Number of bytes read from the disk of a node (usually a host or server)

cae_node_disk_usage

Disk usage of a node (usually a Kubernetes node or server)

cae_node_disk_writes_bytes

Number of bytes written to the disk of a node (usually a host or server)

cae_node_downlink_bps

Downlink bandwidth rate (bit/s) of a node (usually a server or VM)

cae_node_memory_usage

Memory usage of a node (usually a Kubernetes node or physical/virtual server)

cae_node_uplink_bps

Uplink bandwidth rate (bit/s) of a node in a Kubernetes cluster