metrics.md

CRI-O Metrics

To enable the Prometheus metrics exporter for CRI-O, either start crio with --metrics-enable or set the corresponding option in /etc/crio/crio.conf:

[crio.metrics]
enable_metrics = true

The metrics endpoint serves per default on port 9090. This can be changed via the --metrics-port command line argument or via the configuration file:

metrics_port = 9090

If CRI-O runs with enabled metrics, then this can be verified by querying the endpoint manually via curl.

> curl localhost:9090/metrics
…

Available Metrics

Beside the default golang based metrics, CRI-O provides the following additional metrics:

Metric Key	Possible Labels	Type	Purpose
crio_operations	every CRI-O RPC*	Counter	Cumulative number of CRI-O operations by operation type.
crio_operations_latency_microseconds	every CRI-O RPC*, network_setup_pod (CNI pod network setup time), network_setup_overall (Overall network setup time)	Summary	Latency in microseconds of CRI-O operations. Split-up by operation type.
crio_operations_errors	every CRI-O RPC*	Counter	Cumulative number of CRI-O operation errors by operation type.

* Available CRI-O RPC's from the gRPC API: Attach, ContainerStats, ContainerStatus, CreateContainer, Exec, ExecSync, ImageFsInfo, ImageStatus, ListContainerStats, ListContainers, ListImages, ListPodSandbox, PodSandboxStatus, PortForward, PullImage, RemoveContainer, RemoveImage, RemovePodSandbox, ReopenContainerLog, RunPodSandbox, StartContainer, Status, StopContainer, StopPodSandbox, UpdateContainerResources, UpdateRuntimeConfig, Version