System Health Metrics

Wayfinder provides a set of metrics that give you signals about the health of the system and any issues you may need to investigate. These metrics are emitted in a standard kubernetes way, so you can surface them using your observability tools.

Controller metrics

Labels

The following labels are used in controller metrics.

Label	Description
controller	Name of the controller. When omitted controller="cluster".
name	Name of the object being reconciled. When omitted name="eks-dev".
namespace	Namespace of the object being reconciled. When omitted namespace="dev-team".
result	“error”, “requeue”, “requeue_after”, “success”
status	Value of the status field on the status subresource, e.g. “Pending”, “Failed”, “Success”
severity	Error severity
type	Error type

Available metrics

Wayfinder exposes controller metrics using a Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint.

Name	Description	Labels
controller_runtime_reconcile_total	Total number of reconciliations per controller	controller, result
controller_runtime_reconcile_errors_total	Total number of reconciliation errors per controller (see Note)	controller
controller_runtime_reconcile_time_seconds	Length of time per reconciliation per controller	controller
controller_runtime_max_concurrent_reconciles	Maximum number of concurrent reconciles per controller.	controller
controller_runtime_active_workers	Number of currently used workers per controller	controller

Note: Same as controller_runtime_reconcile_total{result=”error”}

Additional controller metrics coming soon

Name	Description	Labels
wf_controller_reconcile_total	Total number of reconciliations per controller and object	controller, namespace, name, result
wf_controller_reconcile_errors_total	Total number of reconciliation errors per controller and object	controller, namespace, name, severity, type
wf_controller_component_reconcile_total	Total number of reconciliations per controller, object and (status) component	controller, namespace, name, component, result, status
wf_controller_component_reconcile_errors_total	Total number of reconciliation errors per controller, object and (status component)	controller, namespace, name, component, severity, type
wf_controller_reconcile_time_seconds	Length of time per reconciliation per controller and object	controller, namespace, name
wf_controller_reconcile_interval_seconds	Length of time since the last reconciliation happened per controller and object	controller, namespace, name
wf_controller_sync_period_seconds	Default sync period for a controller	controller

Example reconciliation loop with recording metrics

Name	Recorded metric
Controller starts	wf_controller_sync_period_seconds
Reconciliation starts for dev-team/eks-dev cluster	wf_controller_reconcile_interval_seconds
Reconcile “Component A”	wf_controller_component_reconcile_total{component=”Component A”,result=”error|requeue|requeue_after
Reconcile “Component B”	wf_controller_component_reconcile_total{component=”Component B”,result=”error|requeue|requeue_after|success”}
Reconciliation finished	wf_controller_reconcile_total{result=”error|requeue|requeue_after|success”} wf_controller_reconcile_time_seconds

API metrics

The Wayfinder API produces a number of metrics around inbound requests and handling.

Name	Description	Recorded metric
Policy Errors	The number of errors encountered trying to add a policy	policy_add_errors
Policy Engine Errors	A counter on the number of errors encountered in the policy engine	policy_errors
Policy Evaluation Summary	A summary of the policy evaluation time in seconds	policy_evaluation_seconds|summary
Policy Evaluation Find Matching	A summary of the latency encountered when finding matching policies	policy_find_matches_seconds|summary
Policies Out of Sync	A counter of the number of policies found out of sync	policy_out_of_sync
HTTP Request Average Summary	The average latency on requests to the apiserver	http_request_avg_sec| http_request_avg_sec_sum|http_request_avg_sec_count
HTTP Request Code Total	The total number of http requests broken down by http code	http_request_code_total
HTTP Request Error Total	The total number of http requests that have not been successful	http_request_error_total
HTTP Total Number of Requests	The total number of http requests to the apiserver	http_request_total

Database metrics

Name	Description	Recorded metric
Database Total Creation Counter	A counter or the create operations in the db	db_create_counter
Database Total Deletion Counter	A counter or the delete operations in the db	db_delete_counter
Database Latency Summary on deletions	The latency on delete operations to the db	db_delete_latency_sec db_delete_latency_sec_sum db_delete_latency_sec_count
Overall Database Total Errors	A counter of the number of errors encountered by the db	db_error_counter
Database Latency Summary on selecting records	The latency on get operations to the db	db_get_latency_sec db_get_latency_sec_count db_get_latency_sec_sum
Database Latency Summary on selects / listing	The latency on list operations to the db	db_list_latency_sec db_list_latency_sec_sum db_list_latency_sec_count
Database Latency Summary on updates / insert	The latency on set operations to the db	db_set_latency_sec db_set_latency_sec_sum db_set_latency_sec_count
Database Updates	A counter or the update and add operations in the db	db_update_counter