Provided metrics¶

LXD provides a number of instance metrics and internal metrics. See How to monitor metrics for instructions on how to work with these metrics.

Instance metrics¶

The following instance metrics are provided:

Metric	Description
`lxd_cpu_effective_total`	Total number of effective CPUs
`lxd_cpu_seconds_total{cpu="<cpu>", mode="<mode>"}`	Total number of CPU time used (in seconds)
`lxd_disk_read_bytes_total{device="<dev>"}`	Total number of bytes read
`lxd_disk_reads_completed_total{device="<dev>"}`	Total number of completed reads
`lxd_disk_written_bytes_total{device="<dev>"}`	Total number of bytes written
`lxd_disk_writes_completed_total{device="<dev>"}`	Total number of completed writes
`lxd_filesystem_avail_bytes{device="<dev>",fstype="<type>"}`	Available space (in bytes)
`lxd_filesystem_free_bytes{device="<dev>",fstype="<type>"}`	Free space (in bytes)
`lxd_filesystem_size_bytes{device="<dev>",fstype="<type>"}`	Size of the file system (in bytes)
`lxd_memory_Active_anon_bytes`	Amount of anonymous memory on active LRU list
`lxd_memory_Active_bytes`	Amount of memory on active LRU list
`lxd_memory_Active_file_bytes`	Amount of file-backed memory on active LRU list
`lxd_memory_Cached_bytes`	Amount of cached memory
`lxd_memory_Dirty_bytes`	Amount of memory waiting to be written back to the disk
`lxd_memory_HugepagesFree_bytes`	Amount of free memory for `hugetlb`
`lxd_memory_HugepagesTotal_bytes`	Amount of used memory for `hugetlb`
`lxd_memory_Inactive_anon_bytes`	Amount of anonymous memory on inactive LRU list
`lxd_memory_Inactive_bytes`	Amount of memory on inactive LRU list
`lxd_memory_Inactive_file_bytes`	Amount of file-backed memory on inactive LRU list
`lxd_memory_Mapped_bytes`	Amount of mapped memory
`lxd_memory_MemAvailable_bytes`	Amount of available memory
`lxd_memory_MemFree_bytes`	Amount of free memory
`lxd_memory_MemTotal_bytes`	Amount of used memory
`lxd_memory_OOM_kills_total`	The number of out-of-memory kills
`lxd_memory_RSS_bytes`	Amount of anonymous and swap cache memory
`lxd_memory_Shmem_bytes`	Amount of cached file system data that is swap-backed
`lxd_memory_Swap_bytes`	Amount of used swap memory
`lxd_memory_Unevictable_bytes`	Amount of unevictable memory
`lxd_memory_Writeback_bytes`	Amount of memory queued for syncing to disk
`lxd_network_receive_bytes_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of received bytes on a given interface
`lxd_network_receive_drop_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of received dropped bytes on a given interface
`lxd_network_receive_errs_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of received errors on a given interface
`lxd_network_receive_packets_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of received packets on a given interface
`lxd_network_transmit_bytes_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of transmitted bytes on a given interface
`lxd_network_transmit_drop_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of transmitted dropped bytes on a given interface
`lxd_network_transmit_errs_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of transmitted errors on a given interface
`lxd_network_transmit_packets_total{device="<dev>"}`	Amount of transmitted packets on a given interface
`lxd_procs_total`	Number of running processes

Internal metrics¶

The following internal metrics are provided:

Metric	Description
`lxd_go_alloc_bytes_total`	Total number of bytes allocated (even if freed)
`lxd_go_alloc_bytes`	Number of bytes allocated and still in use
`lxd_go_buck_hash_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes used by the profiling bucket hash table
`lxd_go_frees_total`	Total number of frees
`lxd_go_gc_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes used for garbage collection system metadata
`lxd_go_goroutines`	Number of goroutines that currently exist
`lxd_go_heap_alloc_bytes`	Number of heap bytes allocated and still in use
`lxd_go_heap_idle_bytes`	Number of heap bytes waiting to be used
`lxd_go_heap_inuse_bytes`	Number of heap bytes that are in use
`lxd_go_heap_objects`	Number of allocated objects
`lxd_go_heap_released_bytes`	Number of heap bytes released to OS
`lxd_go_heap_sys_bytes`	Number of heap bytes obtained from system
`lxd_go_lookups_total`	Total number of pointer lookups
`lxd_go_mallocs_total`	Total number of `mallocs`
`lxd_go_mcache_inuse_bytes`	Number of bytes in use by `mcache` structures
`lxd_go_mcache_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes used for `mcache` structures obtained from system
`lxd_go_mspan_inuse_bytes`	Number of bytes in use by `mspan` structures
`lxd_go_mspan_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes used for `mspan` structures obtained from system
`lxd_go_next_gc_bytes`	Number of heap bytes when next garbage collection will take place
`lxd_go_other_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes used for other system allocations
`lxd_go_stack_inuse_bytes`	Number of bytes in use by the stack allocator
`lxd_go_stack_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes obtained from system for stack allocator
`lxd_go_sys_bytes`	Number of bytes obtained from system
`lxd_operations_total`	Number of running operations
`lxd_uptime_seconds`	Daemon uptime (in seconds)
`lxd_warnings_total`	Number of active warnings