metrics

CalicoVPP metrics

CalicoVPP exposes can expose metrics with a prometheus http endpoint.

---
kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: calico-vpp-config
  namespace: calico-vpp-dataplane
data:
  CALICOVPP_FEATURE_GATES: |-
    { 
      "prometheusEnabled": "true"
    }

  CALICOVPP_INITIAL_CONFIG: |-
    { 
      "prometheusStatsPrefix": "cni_projectcalico_vpp_",
      "prometheusListenEndpoint": ":8888",
      "prometheusRecordMetricInterval": "5s"
    }

Every metrics is prefixed by the value specified in prometheusStatsPrefix. Keeping in mind that all non alphanumeric characters are replaced by underscores.

You can find the full specification for the environment variables in config/config.go

Further documentation

• Full metrics listing
• Example on how to configure a prometheus collector